Meanings
plural nigger babies
- derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA black baby.
That is what society taught us at the time. Just like it taught us that being a nigger baby was something you didn't want to be. I didn't know any better.
2007, Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, David Steele, Silent Gesture, The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, page 662 more examples
whar the water is sleepin still and dark as a nigger baby in a shuck-pen-the lofty peaks raisin ther bald heds into the sky to bathe 'em in the cold moon-beams
1843, Joseph Jones, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Major Jones's Sketches of Travel, Comprising the Scenes, Incidents and Adventures in His Tour from Georgia to Canada, page 147"Last one in the water's a nigger-baby." The childhood-ingrained attitudes which these expressions represent cut deeper and wider than the need of discontented groups to feel superior and to express hatred safely.
1942, School of the Jewish Woman (New York, N.Y.) (contributor), News from the School of the Jewish Woman, volume 8, page 25
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