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house nigger

n. 1 (context derogatory ethnic slur idiomatic English) A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or traitor 2 (context dated now offensive English) A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual labor.

Usage examples of "house nigger".

You got to let a house nigger have a little time outside in the pasture, you know.

Ts that Master Peter's daughter who married a house nigger from Dragonard Hill and hasn't been back down home here since her step-ma was thrown from that horse?

The only guys I knew who might be marriage bait were either ones I couldn't stand, ones who wanted some kind of house nigger, or ones that were already as high as they were gonna go and were like street cleaners or handled the drive-in window at McDonald's.

He was their house nigger and it suited them to keep him around, as, Solanka suspected, a sort of pet.