Meaning of house nigger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer.
   dated, offensive
2. A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.
   derogatory, ethnic, idiomatic, slur

Examples

“If massa was sick, house nigger would come 'round and say, “Massa we sick, ain't we?”

“"You look like a house nigger."”

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