house nigger

plural house niggers

1. datedoffensiveA black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.

   If massa was sick, house nigger would come 'round and say, “Massa we sick, ain't we?

   2008, Julia L. Mickenberg, Philip Nel, Tales for little rebels: a collection of radical children's literature, page 195

2. derogatoryethnicidiomaticslurA subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.

   "You look like a house nigger."

   2003, John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, page 162