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A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nigra
Today it means: A black person. Full definition →
Today it means: A black person. Full definition →
A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.