Meanings
- USderogatoryethnicoffensivesluruncountableNiggerdom.
As if... there could ever be a best nigger, what a contradiction, we were branded and awarded the nigger, the donkey nigger, the house nigger, the good nigger, only if we did not holler when probed was our niggertry more pleasant,[…]
2019 March 9, Marc Stallion, American Nigger, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 452 more examples
America's a janitor w/Rolls Royce, radio full blast of nerve end^([sic]) jangles at 90 miles per thru the main drag they don't know ev'rybody's laughing at 'em what d'ya expect of a country w/o peasant tradition to lend dignity to its niggertry
1994, Stephen Jonas, Selected Poems, Talisman House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224This story could be nothing but 100% pure niggertry, even without the name. Also, what is a halfway-house full of niggers doing in a town named "Happy Valley"? If they insist on running these nigger nests, they belond^([sic]) STRICTLY in Coontown.
2017 April 24, Bob Wolfe, “It doesn't take long to realize after you start reading, this is 100% nigger!”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)
Origin
From nigger + -ry, with the t being inserted under influence from words like bigotry.
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