nigger-lover n.
(orig. US) a term of abuse, aimed at a white who is seen as overly friendly towards blacks (1932 Cressey cit. refers to Filpinos).
 | in Galveston Era (1961) 173: His critics [...] continued calling Sherwood ‘a wiseacre and a nigger lover’ . | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | After the War 240: Nearly all of them fell readily enough into the current abuse of niggers and nigger-lovers. | |
| White Cloud Kansas Chief (KS) 11 Aug. 1/4: The banners intendid to capcher the niggers in the South went to Suthern Injeany, wher they stone nigger lovers. | |
| Nat. Tribune (WA) 29 Sept. 1/2: There, you Yankee nigger lover, do you hear that? | |
| Lafayette Gaz. (LA) 8 Jan. 1/1: He has evoked the wrath and abuse of every nigger lover. | |
| Sarjint Larry an’ Frinds 135: Oi messilf [...] am not wot we calls in de States ‘a nigger lover’. | |
| Cayton’s Wkly (Seattle, WA) 27 Sept. 2/2: If the nigger-lovers want to make an official investigation of the affair, let them. | |
| Appeal (St Paul, MN) 14 Jan. 1/1: The phrase quoted [...] saved the President from [...] fanatical denunciation as a ‘nigger lover’. | |
| Taxi-Dance Hall 35: Niggerlover – A girl who ‘dates’ Filipinos. | |
| Gingertown 248: They call her Nigger Lover because Negroes are her fetish. | |
| Really the Blues 18: The Southerners had called me ‘nigger-lover’ there. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | City of Spades (1964) 77: I think I’m in danger [...] of becoming what Americans call a nigger-lover. | |
| Blues for Mister Charlie 140: The niggerlover! Black boys and girls! I’ve wanted my hands full of them. | |
| Requiem for a Dream (1987) 267: Ah dont weant to hear one fuckin word from you, nigga lova. | |
| White Talk Black Talk 54: Look at her! Wogsmeat! Niggerlover! | |
| Six Out Seven (1994) 72: He cared about black people [...] Rumor told of Bates calling him a nigger-lover. | |
| Night Dogs 344: ‘I’ve got your gun, nigger lover’. | |
| Our Town 90: ‘Fuck you,’ Larry snarled. ‘You goddamn niggerlover.’. | |
| ‘Pimp Game ’76’ in ThugLit Jan. [ebook] The beating went on for a few seconds [...] someone said, ‘Nigger-lover!’ and they were gone. |
In derivatives
(US) a derog. term for the refusal of whites to take a racist attitude to blacks.
| ‘Thundermug’ Texas Stories (1995) 67: Say, don’t you know what comes of niggerlovin’, sonny. |
1. used of any white person showing favour to black people.
| Supplemental Report Joint Committee General Assembly Louisiana 189: This man then said that [...] he was a ‘d–d nigger loving son of a b–h, and ought to be killed’. | |
| Brann the Iconoclast 331: The black is here, and I see but one way to get rid of him, and that is to drive him en masse beyond the Ohio and give our nigger-loving neighbors an opportunity to test their fine theories. | |
| Red Cloud Chief (Webster Co., NE) 11 May 3/3: It was nothing more than a glorification of that nigger-loving hound! | |
| Our Mr Wrenn 3: Mrs. Zapp was too conscientiously dolorous to be much cheered by the sympathy of a nigger-lovin’ Yankee. | |
| (con. 1920s) Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 474: The dirty nigger-loving Reds are playing up to them. | |
| ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 58: Why, you nigger-lovin’ bastard, what’s Texas comin’ to when a white woman... | |
| Affair of the Heart 344: He loved Mother and they loved us, and we grew up, without servants, as nigger hating and as nigger loving, too. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Snowball 58: That nigger-loving bastard went for me. | |
| letter 5 Feb. in Proud Highway (1997) 492: Just another one of these nigger-loving liberals. | |
| Voices from the Love Generation 251: [I was] cast out of that society – nigger-lovin’, mother-fuckin’, New York Yankee Jew. | |
| Cutter and Bone (2001) 236: Monk herself is a nigger-loving, com-symp, atheistic socialist with allergies. | |
| Wild Blue 218: No more smart-ass talk or I’m going to shove this nightstick right up your nigger-loving ass. | |
| Six Out Seven (1994) 239: Toby, nigger-lovin, Barlow. | |
| in Racist America 122: Whites such as myself are just itching to take to the streets and exterminate every [...] white nigger loving commie dog. | |
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘If we find out you know where that nigger-lovin’ piece of shit is hidin’ out, you a dead man’. |
2. used as a general derog. epithet, usu. by Southerners, irrespective of the object’s actual racial opinions.
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 16: We’ll cut yur niggerlovin heart out. |