Nigger From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the word and its history. For the colloquial variant, see nigga. For other uses, see Nigger (disambiguation). Page semi-protected 1885 illustration from Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, captioned Misto Bradishs nigger Nigger is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term referring to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (color black).[1] Often used disparagingly, by the mid 20th century, particularly in the United States, it suggested that its target is extremely unsophisticated. Its usage had become unambiguously pejorative, a common ethnic slur usually directed at blacks of Sub-Saharan African descent.
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