house nigger



house nigger

highly offensive A disparaging term for a black person, likening him or her to a subservient slave, i.e., one who works in the house of the slavemaster.
See also: house, nigger

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
LloydLOIDEnglish
Wills[wilz]
GretaGRE-tah (German), GRET-ə (English)Swedish, German, English
Lyle[lail]
Lindita-Albanian
'Uriyah-Biblical Hebrew