nig

Abbreviation of English Ngalakgan with i as a placeholder.

nig

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ngalakan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ngalakan terms

• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

From Middle English nig, probably of Scandinavian origin; see niggard.^[1][2] Unrelated to nigger.

nig (plural nigs)

1. (archaic) Niggard.

Clipping of nigger. In the verb sense, a reinterpretation as if the word contained the suffix -er.

nig (plural nigs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) A nigger.
   • 1925, Dorothy Scarborough, assisted By Ola Lee Quiledge, On The Trail of Negro Folk-Songs-online book. A collection of negro folk songs with lyrics, sheet music & commentaries, Traditionalmusic.co.uk, pages 69–70:

     Cotton-eyed Joe, Cotton-eyed Joe,
     He was de nig dat sarved me so,…

   • 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 216:

     ‘When a few wild nigs come in he must ‘educate’ the most intelligent looking; they will come in handy.’

   • 1959, Don Robertson, The three days:

     He always thought one step ahead of the nigs.

   • 1961, Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War:

     In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.

   • 1967, Frank Hercules, I want a black doll:

     What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?

2. (African-American Vernacular) Clipping of nigga (“friend, fellow black person”).
   • 2009, Mary B. Morrison, Maneater, Detroit, M.I. […]: Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 252:

     Take Blow, my room dawg and fraternity brother from back in the college days. He's a real smoove nig, curly haired handsome, and got mad chick appeal.

nig (third-person singular simple present nigs, present participle nigging, simple past and past participle nigged)

1. (Internet slang, ethnic slur, intransitive) To behave as a stereotypical black person.

• nig-nog

• -ïng, Ing, IGN, Gin, @ing, gin, ing, NGI, -ing, GNI

• IPA^(key): /nɪɡ/

nig m (Arabic spelling نگ)

1. alternative form of ling (“foot”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “nig”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 74

nig

1. imperative of niga

nig (genitive niga, plural nigs)

1. ink

• nigiär

• “nig”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)

nig

1. fish