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This is a very old, very cruel word some people have used for a Black person. It is not a calm name, not a joke, and not a word you “try out.” In English today it is one of the strongest insults you can throw, tied to a long history of treating Black people as less than human.
This is a very old, very cruel word這是一個非常古老、非常殘忍的字，some people have used for a Black person有些人曾經用它稱呼黑人。It is not a calm name, not a joke, and not a word you "try out."它不是一個平常的稱呼，不是玩笑，也不是可以拿來「試試看」的字。In English today it is one of the strongest insults you can throw在今天的英文裡，它是最重的侮辱字眼之一，tied to a long history of treating Black people as less than human跟一段把黑人當作不是完整的人來對待的漫長歷史連在一起。
Do not use it — not in class, not in a chat, not to practise the sound. Even saying it aloud to ask what it means can hurt someone in the room.
Do not use it不要用這個字——not in class, not in a chat, not to practise the sound不管是在課堂上、聊天裡，或是為了練習發音都不行。Even saying it aloud to ask what it means就算只是唸出來問這是什麼意思，can hurt someone in the room也可能傷到在場的人。
If you meet it in an old book, a film, or a song, know that you are looking at a banned insult, not a normal word for a person. When people need to talk about the insult itself, they often say “the n-word” so they do not have to speak the whole thing.
If you meet it in an old book, a film, or a song如果你在舊書、電影或歌曲裡遇到它，know that you are looking at a banned insult要知道你看到的是一個被禁用的侮辱字眼，not a normal word for a person不是稱呼人的普通字。When people need to talk about the insult itself當大家需要談到這個侮辱字眼本身時，they often say "the n-word"常常會說「the n-word」，so they do not have to speak the whole thing這樣就不用把整個字說出口。
Some Black speakers have an in-group use of it among themselves; that is theirs to handle, not a visitor’s, and a in Taiwan should simply leave the word alone.
Some Black speakers have an in-group use of it among themselves有些黑人會在自己人之間有一種內部使用方式，that is theirs to handle, not a visitor's那是他們自己的事，不是外人的，and a learner in Taiwan should simply leave the word alone台灣的學習者最好完全不要碰這個字。
組成It does not split in modern English. It comes from earlier neger, from Middle French nègre (“a Black person”), from Spanish negro, and further back from Latin niger, “black.” The same Latin word also gave English negro and French noir.
原始詞典資料21 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Niggername詞源 1/ˈnɪɡə/
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offensivehistoricalA given name for a black pet.
- Gibson's real affinity is with his dog, Nigger. When we first see Gibson returning from a raid, he is overjoyed to see his four-legged friend […]
Niggername詞源 2/ˈnɪɡə/
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derogatoryNiger (nation).
- Recently the head nigger arrested 60 children from Benin, Togo, Niggeria, Ghana and Nigger, along with 20 of their Slave Masters, who were immigrants from West Africoonia.
- >Why are you critters so ashamed of being identified with your >Africoonian origins? Niggeria and Nigger have vast amounts of natural >resources[…]
niggernoun/ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/
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vulgaroffensiveslurA black person; a person of black African descent.
- It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.
- “Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said.
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vulgaroffensiveslurslangA black person; a person of black African descent.
- There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up.
- See, niggers are followers, blacks normally lead. Niggers call blacks "whitewash" soon as they on the scene.
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vulgaroffensiveslurA member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).
- He never lost his appetite - He bigger grew and bigger; And proved, with every inch of height, A nigger is a nigger.
- Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.
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A friend, particularly a fellow black person (often as an informal term of address).
- “Snoop Dog!” one of them yelled. “That’s my nigga from Long Beach, man.”
- I wonna say whassup to all my Niggers, you know, peace and one love.
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A person of any kind (particularly as a term of abuse).
- People be surprised. I have friends who're all kinds a letters. Everybody loves me an' I love everybody. I got friends who are Ls, I got friends who are Bs, and I got friends who are Gs. But the Ts hate my fucking guts. And I don't blame 'em! It's not their fault. It's mine. I can't stop tellin' jokes about these niggas.
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offensiveA member of a group that is oppressed or marginalized in the manner of black people.
- The governor made it into office by campaigning against the niggers. And people should understand who the niggers are. It's the elderly one week. Then it's those on public assistance. Now he sees women as niggers, and he's trying to do them in.
- It's time for somebody to lead all of America's Niggers," he said at the Capitol Hill press conference when Shirley Chisholm announced she was running for president, "and by this I mean the Young, the Black, the Brown, the Women, the Poor—all the people who feel left out of the political process. If we can put the Nigger Vote together, we can bring about some real change in this country."
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offensiveAny of various dark animals:
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offensivedatedAny of various dark animals:
- Nigger (Male) Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse and Lyell. 1914.
- The Nigger is a common butterfly in Singapore and can be found in the company of bush browns.
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offensivearchaicfishinghobbieslifestyleAny of various dark animals:
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offensivearchaicAny of various dark animals:
- To this group belongs the nigger, or black caterpillar of the turnip, which is often in sufficient numbers to do much mischief.
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archaicbusinesselectrical-engineeringelectricityAn impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
- Now to locate the portion of the machine which contains the "nigger."
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archaicA strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
- A sawyer will come along and be touted and recommended as the best in the country when his chief qualifications will be his ability to jerk the carriage back and forth in a hurry without striking the bumper or to turn the log with the nigger […]
- The word “nigger” means to the backwoodsman a small log placed when blazing, across large logs to fire them; by tending the fire so made, large logs are divided more quickly than by an ax—consequently “a nigger in a woodpile” means something which destroys it and not, as I had supposed, our African brother.
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archaicA steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
- Well, it's a big heavy line, and you operate the nigger — capstan it's also called — by steam. You wrap your line around that and keep taking in the slack, and that draws up them things.
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datedbroadcastingfilmmediaA black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.
- Care should be taken to check visually from the position occupied by the subject and from the camera also, to ascertain that the nigger is positioned correctly and does not obstruct the picture area.
niggerverb/ˈnɪɡə(ɹ)/
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datedTo clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
- […] he resorted to the practice of “niggering,” as it is called: which is simply laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact; by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
- The operation was this: they placed smaller logs and dry rubbish across the log and applied fire to them; this was called “niggering”.
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datedTo exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
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offensiveTo perform in blackface.
- There is a general agreement that niggering took over from mummering to keep up the old custom.
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offensiveTo behave as a stereotypical black person.
- His father said, “Niggering, I was niggering about. You knew that surely.”
- Forrest’s rediscovery of his father coincides with his discovery that old Robinson’s “niggering around” produced at least one child of mixed race.
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offensiveTo treat as inferior.
- The gated community is a powerful tool in the systematic and sustained niggering of local 3rd-world communities - namely, in the book, the Hispanic (mostly wetbacK^([sic])) community[.]
- > He is on TV saying that he was "abused" by the police and treated like a nigger.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。