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In some senses, jigaboo is marked as dated, offensive, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
jigaboo
/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbuː/
noun 2
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A black person.
[…] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which the Afrikaners used as an expletive […]
Any dark-skinned person.
[…] a thicklips, a jigaboo or a jungle bunny, a spook or a spearchucker. My least favourite of these names that people found for black people was the rancid and disgusting “munter”, a Bantu word which
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In some senses, jigaboo is marked as dated, offensive, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.