What is the meaning of NEGRO. Phrases containing NEGRO
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Short for Negroid.
Velcro−head is slang for a Negro.
Used by Whites in the Jim Crow South who were too lace-curtain to say "nigger" but too racist to say "Negro."
Short for Negroid.
Most likely originates with the Latin word "niger" which translates to "black". Similar words for "black" exist in other languages (Spanish, for example, is "negro"). Also somewhat relates to the African country Nigeria, which is primarily black. Many variations exist, including "Nig", "Nigel", "Niggy", "Niggly", etc. Some interesting history.
Starting time (probably from old Negro spiritual "Rise and Shine")
This word has been used since the 17th century to refer to a male Negro - no matter whether slave or not.
Derivative of the name of a champagne; Cordon Negro.
a negro
n Used as a disparaging term for a Black person. [Alteration of dialectal neger, black person, from French negre, from Spanish negro.]
Dinge is derogatory American slang for a Negro.
A negro or mulatto infant. Used in the Southern States.
Once acceptable, it is now often taken derogatorily by Blacks.
From neGRO.
Coon is derogatory slang for a Negro.
Comes from Negro.
Vinny del Negro was a basketball player
Negro + oid; +oid being a general english suffix meaning related to.
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; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
n.
A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
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A negro.
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Characteristic of the negro.
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Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
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A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
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To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.
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A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.
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One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
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In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
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One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
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A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
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See Negroid.
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of Negro
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A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.
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A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
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Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
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The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
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The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.
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A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
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