negress

See also: Negress

English

Alternative forms

Negress

Etymology

From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡɹɪs/

Noun

negress (plural negresses)

(dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.
- 1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:
  Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]
- 1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)
Synonyms: negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress, nigress; see also Thesaurus:person of color

Related terms

Translations

black female

Arabic: زِنْجِيَّة f (zinjiyya), زَنْجِيَّة f (zanjiyya), سَوْدَاء f (sawdāʔ)
Belarusian: негрыця́нка f (njehrycjánka)
Bulgarian: не́гърка f (négǎrka)
Czech: černoška (cs) f
Danish: negerinde c
Dutch: negerin (nl) f, negervrouw f, zwarte (nl) f
Esperanto: negrino
Finnish: neekerinainen
French: négresse (fr) f, noire (fr) f
German: Negerin (de) f, Mohrin (de) f
Greek: νέγρη f (négri), αραπίνα (el) f (arapína)
Italian: nera (it) f, negra (it) f
Lithuanian: negrė f
Macedonian: црнка f (crnka)
Persian: دده‌سیاه (dade-siyâh)
Polish: murzynka (pl) f
Portuguese: negra (pt) f
Romanian: negresă (ro) f
Russian: негритя́нка (ru) f (negritjánka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: црнкиња f

Roman: crnkinja (sh) f
Slovak: černoška (sk) f
Spanish: negra (es) f
Swedish: negrinna (sv), negress (sv) c
Ukrainian: му́ринка f (múrynka), негритя́нка f (nehrytjánka)

See also

Anagrams

Gessner, Sengers

Swedish

Noun

negress c

(dated, now offensive) a negress
Synonym: negrinna

Usage notes

Seldom used purely as an ethnic slur, though old-fashioned and often (somewhat) derogatory.

Declension

Declension of negress
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	negress	negressen	negresser	negresserna
Genitive	negress	negressens	negressers	negressernas

References

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