spiggoty

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Noun

spiggoty (plural spiggoties)

  1. (US, ethnic slur) Synonym of spic (Latino, Latin American; Italian)
    • 1914, The Black Cat (volume 20, page 36)
      He deserted, and for the sake of a girl, a spiggoty girl?
    • 1919 [1918], Jack London, The Red One, London: Mills and Boon:
      You make the mistake of all Gringos in thinking a Mexican is a white man. He ain’t. None of them ain’t—Greasers, Spiggoties, Latin-Americans and all the rest of the cattle.
    • 1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:
      Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.
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