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

Equivalents

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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