Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The word nigger or nigga.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, euphemistic, humorous
Qualifier: often preceded by the
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noun
Any offensive slur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, broadly, euphemistic, humorous
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Synonyms: none provided
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History
From a now-deleted tweet in 2018 defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely uttered a "gamer word".
