house nigger
Meanings
noun
- A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.
- A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.
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