jigaboo

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbuː/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A black person. dated,offensive,slang
    — […] 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 […]
  2. Any dark-skinned person. dated,offensive,slang

词形变化

jigaboos plural gigaboo alternative jiggaboo alternative zigaboo alternative ziggaboo alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
jig nigaboo

词源

Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.
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