miscegenator

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

miscegenate +‎ -or. Attested since the 19th century.

Noun[edit]

miscegenator (plural miscegenators)

  1. Somebody who breeds with a person of another race.
    • 1881, Educational Weekly, volume 9, page 382:
      The anti-Chinaman mob complain that “John” will not intermarry with our race and settle down to spend his earnings in this country, but when he shows a disposition to accommodate them in this respect they appeal to the courts or threaten to mob him as a miscegenator.