Phrase guide
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noun
A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, offensive
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noun
A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, idiomatic, slur
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History
By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers.
