negroism

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noun

A behaviour, speech pattern, etc. characteristic of black people.

Scrabble 11

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nounnegroism (plural negroisms)

plural negroisms

  1. datedoffensiveA behaviour, speech pattern, etc. characteristic of black people.

    Most white children have negresses for nurses, and negro children for playmates. The first accents are caught from them, and the first efforts of speech are negroisms, the most corrupt of patoise.

    1832, Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, The New-England Magazine, volume 3, page 487
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    When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of negroism. From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top.

    1935, Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men

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