Noun: neger
| Singular | neger |
| Plural | negers |
Sample Sentences
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The Parson still more eager, / Than lustful Turk or Neger, / Took up her lower Garment, / And said there was no harm in't, / According to the Text. [c. 1700, ‘The Saint Turn'd Sinner’ (ballad)]
Nouns inflected like neger
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French nègre, from Spanish and Portuguese negro, ultimately from Latin niger. Doublet of negro and noir. See: Latin Nouns '
niger'.