Talk:niggering

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No prizes for guessing who added this one. It appears to have some currency in Google Books, but not with this definition. Ƿidsiþ 18:58, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I couldn’t find any citations for the original sense, but I found several for another sense and for the past participle of the verb to nigger (I added the citations there). There is another noun sense, but I only found two citations for that:

1. • 2012, Alison Ravenscroft, The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pages 139-140:

     Scott has not invented an Australian blackface in order to show something of the logic of race; there has been a long tradition of blackface in Australia and it has played its part in the ‘blackening’ and the ‘niggering'’ of Australian Indigeneity.

   • 2008, Mike Evans, Defining Moments in Art: Over a Century of the Greatest Artists, Exhibitions, People, Artworks and Events that Rocked the World, Cassell Illustrated, pages 322:

     […] and Nolde was a slogan that read: “The niggering of music and theater as well as the niggering of the visual arts was intended to support the racial instinct of the folk, and to tear down blood barriers.”

Lastly, there seems to be another sense which means “working on someone else’s project for free”, but I didn’t bother writing down the citations I found for that (seemed citable though). Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 23:11, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I disagree with the etymology: this is clearly all from the verb- no need to mention the -ing suffix. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I speedy-deleted niggerings, cannot find anything for it anywhere. It reinforces the idea that niggering is only a present participle. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:08, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Ungoliant's two citations seem to mean niggerization. I also saw some evidence for "niggering up", but what it means isn't clear to me. Equinox ◑ 21:17, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I had some trouble deciphering many of the uses of nigger#Verb, probably because so many of the uses are so distasteful and offensive. I added and cited one transitive sense: "to treat as inferior". But there are abundant cites available at groups for various senses. Nigger up can mean "(sports, business) staff with blacks", "damage while attempting to repair", "decorate in a style associated with some black-person stereotype". Even the sense I have added is probably offensive, almost all the others more so. DCDuring TALK 23:31, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

I've removed the non-logging sense of [[niggering]] (RFV-failed). I think the logging senses of both [[niggering]] and [[nigger]] fail, too, lacking sufficiently many uses (as opposed to mentions)... I also note that almost all of the citations use the form "niggering". - -sche (discuss) 05:40, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Logging senses: noun RFV-failed, verb kept. - -sche (discuss) 00:30, 28 November 2012 (UTC)