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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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Lloyd | | LOID | English |
| Wills | | [wilz] | |
| Greta | | GRE-tah (German), GRET-ə (English) | Swedish, German, English |
| Lyle | | [lail] | |
| Lindita | | - | Albanian |
| 'Uriyah | | - | Biblical Hebrew |