white niggern.

Brit.

/ˌwʌɪt ˈnɪɡə/, U.S.

/ˌ(h)waɪt ˈnɪɡər/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and nigger n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., nigger n.

Etymology: < white adj. + nigger n. Compare earlier white Negro n.In use with reference to the French Canadians of Quebec (compare quot. 2005 at sense 1a) after Canadian French nègre blanc (1969, in Nègres blancs d'Amérique, the title of a book by Pierre Vallières, or earlier).

Chiefly U.S. colloquial (derogatory and offensive).

a. Originally: a white person likened to or treated like a black slave. Later chiefly: a white person who is a member of a disdained underclass, esp. one who does menial or hard labour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white person doing menial labour

white slave1622

white nigger1828

1828 John Bull 3 Nov. 349/1 It proves nothing, but that slaves who are invited to amuse a company after dinner, are not treated like beasts of the field—there are many white niggers who do much the same.

1858 W. W. Brown Escape v. i. 35 2d Loun. It's right for niggers to be slaves. White. But I saw some white slaves. 1st Loun. Well, they're white niggers.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master iv. 52 ‘Ole Miss Meanses' white nigger’, as some of them called her, in allusion to her slavish life.

1890 Donahoe's Mag. Mar. 249 An opprobrious term flung at Irishmen, who are regarded by many as the white nigger of the human family.

1920 E. M. Dell Top of World ii. v. 195 It's preferable to doing the white nigger on your blasted farm!

a1964 F. O'Connor Everything that Rises (1965) 257 He would have run the still for the nigger. He would have been a nigger's white nigger any day.

2005 Gazette (Montreal) 16 Aug. a1 ‘Quebec's white niggers also have their black niggers more and more,’ adds Jean, referring to Quebec's growing black population.

b. Chiefly in the language of black slaves: a white person who is not worthy of respect. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1834 C. A. Somerset Sea i. iii. 16 in Cumberland's Minor Theatre VII Him cruel white nigger of a massa tear poor Cæsar him wife and children away, and sell dem to anoder massa.

1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 170 Hanging too good for him, white niggah t'ief, hah!

1905 R. A. Freeman Golden Pool xi. 102 ‘You dam ogly white nigger!’ he shouted. ‘You make all this palaver. All dis country people want to kill us cos you come wid us to spy deir country’.

c. A white person who defends the rights or interests of black people.

ΚΠ

1853 Metropolitan Oct. 483 The people in the gallery amused themselves for some time in giving groans for Phillips, ‘the white nigger’ as they called him.

1871 Select Comm. Alleged Outrages Southern States: Rep. 419 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Rep. 1) I I am the only white man there who is a republican... At our election I voted for the constitution, and they said I was the only white nigger that voted for the constitution.

1965 Life 21 May 35 I thought I'd never see the day when Communists and niggers and white niggers and Jews were flying under the banner of the United Nations flag.

1972 Jet 8 June 4/1 We must..stop making exceptions to Blackness. We must put an end to niggers accepting white niggers as Blacks.

1999 Times 21 July (Features section) 40/2 He was used as a messenger boy to deliver by hand threats to those who opposed the Klan and who Lee's new friends labelled ‘white niggers’.

d. A white person who identifies with aspects of African-American culture, and behaves or is perceived to behave in a manner associated with those cultural forms. Cf. wigger n.

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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society

beard1667

come-outer1840

pagan1841

Bohemian1843

Greenwich Villager1887

weirdie1894

outsider1907

white nigger1934

beardo1935

isolate1942

weirdo1955

beat1958

beatnik1958

boho1958

beatster1959

way out1959

hippie1966

rebetis1966

homeboy1967

peanut1968

Yippie1968

suedehead1970

Goth1986

grebo1987

hipster1989

1934 Esquire Feb. 96 Art Hickman and other purveyors of sweet rose to meteoric fame while white men who continued to play hot received the chauvinistic appellation of ‘white niggers’.

1970 R. D. Abrahams Positively Black vi. 135 Hippies and other recent Bohemian groups have openly proclaimed themselves ‘white niggers’ by which they seem to mean that, like blacks, they represent an alternative to the life style of majority-group American culture.

1989 Times 25 Apr. 36/7 The appellant had been taunted by a woman who called him a ‘white nigger’. Apparently, although a white man himself he affected at times a West Indian accent.

1998 S. Mackay Artist's Widow (1999) x. 69 You're pathetic, you know that? You're nothing but a white nigger. We laugh at wiggas like you, you know.

2. A black person who is seen as conforming to white society, deferring to white people, or accepting a role prescribed by them.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > cultivating friendships with white people

pink-chaser1925

white nigger1937

the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > in or as in black person > one who

Uncle Tom1852

handkerchief head1917

white nigger1937

1937 A. Herndon Let me Live xv. 173 It happens occasionally that when a decent white man finds a Negro whose manners and address are pleasing to him, he condescends to..treat him as an equal. Such a Negro usually is honored in the private conversations of white men with the inelegant description of ‘white nigger’.

1965 Listener 15 Apr. 545/2 The intellectual West Indian is being told to stand up and be counted. Will he commit himself to his people or remain what our radical Negroes in the Southern United States would call a ‘white nigger’?

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1320/4 Dr Marcus Foster, a black,..suggested that the children be equipped with identity passes... The unfortunate Foster was widely accused of being an Uncle Tom and a white nigger.

1996 M. Drabble Witch of Exmoor 55 I know the dangers. Uncle Tom. White nigger. Token black.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white nigger
释义	white niggern. Brit. /ˌwʌɪt ˈnɪɡə/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt ˈnɪɡər/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and nigger n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., nigger n. Etymology: < white adj. + nigger n. Compare earlier white Negro n.In use with reference to the French Canadians of Quebec (compare quot. 2005 at sense 1a) after Canadian French nègre blanc (1969, in Nègres blancs d'Amérique, the title of a book by Pierre Vallières, or earlier). Chiefly U.S. colloquial (derogatory and offensive). 1. a. Originally: a white person likened to or treated like a black slave. Later chiefly: a white person who is a member of a disdained underclass, esp. one who does menial or hard labour. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white person doing menial labour white slave1622 white nigger1828 1828 John Bull 3 Nov. 349/1 It proves nothing, but that slaves who are invited to amuse a company after dinner, are not treated like beasts of the field—there are many white niggers who do much the same. 1858 W. W. Brown Escape v. i. 35 2d Loun. It's right for niggers to be slaves. White. But I saw some white slaves. 1st Loun. Well, they're white niggers. 1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master iv. 52 ‘Ole Miss Meanses' white nigger’, as some of them called her, in allusion to her slavish life. 1890 Donahoe's Mag. Mar. 249 An opprobrious term flung at Irishmen, who are regarded by many as the white nigger of the human family. 1920 E. M. Dell Top of World ii. v. 195 It's preferable to doing the white nigger on your blasted farm! a1964 F. O'Connor Everything that Rises (1965) 257 He would have run the still for the nigger. He would have been a nigger's white nigger any day. 2005 Gazette (Montreal) 16 Aug. a1 ‘Quebec's white niggers also have their black niggers more and more,’ adds Jean, referring to Quebec's growing black population. b. Chiefly in the language of black slaves: a white person who is not worthy of respect. Now rare. ΚΠ 1834 C. A. Somerset Sea i. iii. 16 in Cumberland's Minor Theatre VII Him cruel white nigger of a massa tear poor Cæsar him wife and children away, and sell dem to anoder massa. 1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods I. 170 Hanging too good for him, white niggah t'ief, hah! 1905 R. A. Freeman Golden Pool xi. 102 ‘You dam ogly white nigger!’ he shouted. ‘You make all this palaver. All dis country people want to kill us cos you come wid us to spy deir country’. c. A white person who defends the rights or interests of black people. ΚΠ 1853 Metropolitan Oct. 483 The people in the gallery amused themselves for some time in giving groans for Phillips, ‘the white nigger’ as they called him. 1871 Select Comm. Alleged Outrages Southern States: Rep. 419 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (42nd Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Rep. 1) I I am the only white man there who is a republican... At our election I voted for the constitution, and they said I was the only white nigger that voted for the constitution. 1965 Life 21 May 35 I thought I'd never see the day when Communists and niggers and white niggers and Jews were flying under the banner of the United Nations flag. 1972 Jet 8 June 4/1 We must..stop making exceptions to Blackness. We must put an end to niggers accepting white niggers as Blacks. 1999 Times 21 July (Features section) 40/2 He was used as a messenger boy to deliver by hand threats to those who opposed the Klan and who Lee's new friends labelled ‘white niggers’. d. A white person who identifies with aspects of African-American culture, and behaves or is perceived to behave in a manner associated with those cultural forms. Cf. wigger n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society beard1667 come-outer1840 pagan1841 Bohemian1843 Greenwich Villager1887 weirdie1894 outsider1907 white nigger1934 beardo1935 isolate1942 weirdo1955 beat1958 beatnik1958 boho1958 beatster1959 way out1959 hippie1966 rebetis1966 homeboy1967 peanut1968 Yippie1968 suedehead1970 Goth1986 grebo1987 hipster1989 1934 Esquire Feb. 96 Art Hickman and other purveyors of sweet rose to meteoric fame while white men who continued to play hot received the chauvinistic appellation of ‘white niggers’. 1970 R. D. Abrahams Positively Black vi. 135 Hippies and other recent Bohemian groups have openly proclaimed themselves ‘white niggers’ by which they seem to mean that, like blacks, they represent an alternative to the life style of majority-group American culture. 1989 Times 25 Apr. 36/7 The appellant had been taunted by a woman who called him a ‘white nigger’. Apparently, although a white man himself he affected at times a West Indian accent. 1998 S. Mackay Artist's Widow (1999) x. 69 You're pathetic, you know that? You're nothing but a white nigger. We laugh at wiggas like you, you know. 2. A black person who is seen as conforming to white society, deferring to white people, or accepting a role prescribed by them. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > cultivating friendships with white people pink-chaser1925 white nigger1937 the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] > in or as in black person > one who Uncle Tom1852 handkerchief head1917 white nigger1937 1937 A. Herndon Let me Live xv. 173 It happens occasionally that when a decent white man finds a Negro whose manners and address are pleasing to him, he condescends to..treat him as an equal. Such a Negro usually is honored in the private conversations of white men with the inelegant description of ‘white nigger’. 1965 Listener 15 Apr. 545/2 The intellectual West Indian is being told to stand up and be counted. Will he commit himself to his people or remain what our radical Negroes in the Southern United States would call a ‘white nigger’? 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Nov. 1320/4 Dr Marcus Foster, a black,..suggested that the children be equipped with identity passes... The unfortunate Foster was widely accused of being an Uncle Tom and a white nigger. 1996 M. Drabble Witch of Exmoor 55 I know the dangers. Uncle Tom. White nigger. Token black. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1828
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