nigga
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/ˈnɪɡə/
Definition of nigga
6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (alt-of, dated, ethnic, offensive, pronunciation-spelling, slur, vulgar)Pronunciation spelling of nigger.
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noun
- (alt-of, dated, ethnic, offensive, pronunciation-spelling, slur, vulgar)Pronunciation spelling of nigger.
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(offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A close and loyal friend.
“I'd never betray you, 'cause you my nigga, man.”
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(offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A black person (usually a male friend), especially an African American.
“As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there.”
“"I mean, if you're not interested, it ain't nothing but a thang, baby girl. Just let a nigga know."”
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(offensive, often, slang, vulgar)Any person, though chiefly male.
“White niggas do be like, this is too spicy.”
“All these freshman niggas are so annoying.”
“These niggas out here bein' fake.”
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(offensive, often, slang, vulgar)A male, especially an adult one, as opposed to a female.
“Niggas on my dick more than my bitches.”
“I read somewhere I'm homophobic. Shit, go through the hood. There's mad niggas on my dick.”
“Now if you go to a party, and it's straight niggas, then I say a good 7 times out of 10, it's bouta get LIT UP! Like bro, dudes don't go to parties for other dudes. Nobody wants to pull up to a sausage fest. Like nothing is worse than pulling up to a party that was promoted to have hella joints there, for there to be no females there!”
- (vulgar)A type of acrographic lexical list included in Old Babylonian scribal curriculum.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a dialectal non-rhotic pronunciation of nigger.
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