nigger v.1
1. (US) to do menial work.
Antiquities L.I. 228: The settlers who owned a few slaves employed them in this work; and hence, this process [grinding grain by samp mortar] was vulgarly called in that part of the State ‘niggering corn’ [DA]. |
2. (UK Und.) to work as a nigger minstrel.
Signor Lippo 27: Well, Dukey, this is better than niggering. |