tree nigger
nounEtymology tree + nigger
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Derogatory, Ethnic, Slang, Slur A Native American person
- sacred soil contaminated by tree nigger babies1862, Supplement to the Courant, page 88:
- lest the town constable see him off the reservation and chase him out of town. He was ever fearful that someone would call him a "tree nigger" or worse.1994, Milwaukee Magazine Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page xlviii:
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- He shouldn't have fired a shot, the whole place is crawling with fucking tree niggers.2015, John Fitzgerald, The Revenant, 31m:
- Related terms
- prairie nigger, red nigger, redskin, timber nigger