nigraadj.n.

1938 J. W. Daniels Southerner discovers South 110 This planter was saving a little nigra girl for himself.

1959 New Statesman 6 June 800/1 In the autumn of 1956 I asked a young plantation owner in Mississippi if he had noticed any change in his relations with Negro employees since the Supreme Court rulings against segregation. ‘Well,’ he said slowly, ‘I guess you can say the nigra ain't loyal any more.’

1965 L. H. Whitten Progeny of Adder (1966) 69 The guy has some kind of funny accent, it ain't Jewish or Italian and it ain't Nigra or Southern.

1944 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 13 378/1 In the Prisoner of Shark Island, one unarmed man audaciously approaches Negro troops..and commands ‘Put that gun down, Nigrah!’

1950 Penguin New Writing 40 67 Your Riverbottom Nigras lived in little shotgun houses.

1968 Guardian 25 Oct. 2/3 We know our niggras and we love them.

1969 A. Young Dancing 5 Nobody want no nice nigger no more... They want an angry splib A furious nigrah.

1973 L. Heren Growing up Poor in London v. 109 I was with Martin Luther King Jr. on his 1961 freedom ride, and the church in which he preached in Montgomery, Alabama, was attacked. This led to a stopover of three or four days, during which several well-meaning whites, in spite of all the evidence, sought to persuade me that their niggers—or rather, nigras—were happy, well loved, and free to do whatever they wanted.

1994 Analog Sci. Fiction & Fact Jan. 77/2 The swells could hear 'em any time; but the onlyest nigras I ever saw 'fore I left the hills was William Biddle.