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n-word

n-word

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  • N-word

Noun

n-word (plural n-words)

  1. A word starting with n.
    1. (euphemistic) The word nigger or nigga or nigra.
    2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (euphemistic) The word Nazi.
    3. (humorous) Any word beginning with n that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
    4. (linguistics) Negation words, such as not, nobody, and nothing.
  2. (linguistics) Danish/Swedish/Norwegian nouns of the common gender (their indefinite article being en), as opposed to t-words, nouns of the neuter gender (their indefinite article being et).

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  • (euphemism for nigger): n-bomb

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