niggah

English

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of nigger, representing AAVE or US Southern English. From the early 1800s.

Noun

niggah (plural niggahs or niggahz)

  1. (possibly offensive, African-American Vernacular) Alternative spelling of nigga
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:
      The three of us were hanging out rapping in Hamilton projects with some niggahs Pimp had got tight with on Rikers Island.
  2. (offensive) Alternative spelling of nigger
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