Definitions For Nigga

Noun

NIGGA (plural s, niggaz) (offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, dated) (vulgar, slang, often, offensive, but also often used affectionately in, _, African American Vernacular English) A close and loyal friend. : (vulgar, slang, often, offensive, but tolerated in, _, African American Vernacular English) A black person (usually a male friend), especially an african american. : (vulgar, slang, often, offensive, chiefly, African American Vernacular English) Any person, though chiefly male. : : : (vulgar, slang, often, offensive, but tolerated in, _, African American Vernacular English) A male as opposed to a female.

Usage notes

There have been efforts by those of African descent to reclaim the word nigger, especially in this form (nigga, and its variants such as niggah), but these efforts are controversial, and some people do not believe it is able to be reclaimed, due to its fraught history and continued derogatory usage. Usage by non-black people is usually considered highly offensive. For more, see nigger. Several variant spellings of this word have been in use for a long time, including niggah and nigguh, which were long only pluralized with -s (niggahs, etc.) but are now often (informally) also pluralized with the eye dialect ending -z (niggahz). More recently, spellings like nikka and nikkah have also come into use in informal dialogue and hip-hop. Sometimes, especially in period writing from before the mid-20th century, nigguh is specifically pronunciation spelling for a white Southern realization of nigger, and nigga(h) is pronunciation spelling for an African-American realization. This word cannot be distinguished from nigger in non-rhotic varieties, such as most British English accents.

Synonyms

a friend; a black man nigger, nizzle; homie

Derived terms

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Translations

Dutch: neger, m Finnish: nekru French: nègre, m Macedonian: црнчуга, f Portuguese: (Brazil) crioulo, m, preto, m Punjabi: Russian: негр Serbo-Croatian: Spanish: negro, m, negrito, m

Alternative forms

Etymology

From nigger, coming from w:list of dialects of the english language, dialects of the english language which are w:rhotic and non-rhotic accents, non-rhotic.

See also

Anagrams

Gangi, aging