Meanings
plural jigaboos · alternative gigaboo · alternative jiggaboo · alternative zigaboo · alternative ziggaboo
- datedoffensiveslangA black person.
[…] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]
2012, Michael Rogers, Coconut Shells, page 3 - datedoffensiveslangAny dark-skinned person.
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 黑鬼
- 黑鬼 (hēi gǔi)offensive term for black person
Japanese 黒んぼ
- 黒んぼ (kuronbo)offensive term for black person
Cite this entry
jigaboo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jigaboo
“jigaboo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jigaboo. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jigaboo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jigaboo.
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