Green’s Dictionary of Slang

any non-white, whether black, Asian or East Asian; also attrib.

1958		C. Lee diary 25 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 70: As per bloody usual, Mister, the bloody nig-nogs aren’t ready.
1959		M. Pugh Chancer 85: Bunch of nig-nogs off the trees.
1967		K. Amis letter Sept. in Leader (2000) 685: The Wog erred splendidly when she said Fisk is the only nignog university in USA.
1975		J. McClure Snake 82: Gilbert Littlemore turned out to be one of those ex-Kenya types who kept calling coons ‘Sambo’ and ‘nig-nog’.
1981		C. Hope Separate Development 150: ‘Hullo, mate, I says to myself, that effing nog’s seeing what he didn’t oughter. Cheeky swine! We can’t have that. Another second and I’d have lumbered him myself.’ ‘All these kaffirs are the same,’ Joerie says.
1985		J. Clanchy Lie of Land 217: The bus was packed. He was the only European in it. Apart from an Australian at the front, who [...] nodded tersely at him. ‘Bloody nig-nogs.’.
1994		J. O’Connor Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 50: ‘Yew know,’ she cackled, ‘them nig nogs. Now ah’m not a racialist or anyfink, but I mean, reaaally, they come over ’ere and they caan’t spaik the farking language, can they?’.
2006		Guardian 14 Feb. 7/2: [She] asked why she did not have ‘the hands of a nig nog’ like other Filipino nurses.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 9: Whining on about the nig-nog’s fucking rights, if you will! [...] There’s no such thing as a ordinary decent coon.
2016		Guardian 3 Nov. 12/1: ‘I have got through the days of being called a Paki and a nig-nog’.