niggerskin

English

Etymology

nigger +‎ skin

Noun

niggerskin (plural niggerskins)

1. (derogatory, offensive) Skin of a nigger.
   • 1944, Sylvestre Cornelius Watkins, Anthology of American Negro Literature (Modern library of the world's best books)‎^[1], Modern Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 352:

     A curious, throbbing, impersonal force flowed through me and around me in an unstemmable tide. It was in the music, in the soft, soft niggerskins, in the pale whiteskins.

   • 2000 December 5, Byker, “Funeral business booms in kaffir country”, in soc.culture.african.american‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Those with nothing to hock could always sell their loved one's hide to a
     tannery for the niggerskin trade....

   • 2010, Phil Cummings, Sin City High‎^[3], Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 395:

     ”I want to get me a nigger toe to hang from my rear view mirror! I thought about niggerskin fuckin' upholstery and maybe even scalping a few of these jigaboos and having my dashboard padded with nigger-hair but that means I'd have to be here all fuckin' day man and this fuckin' school bugs me.”

2. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, metonymically) Nigger.
   • 1976, Asian American Women‎^[4], Asian American Women, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 39:

     The voices had begun to circle silently and secretly and purposefully. “You're from Jap-pan pan pan niggerskin, and you made Pearl Harbor where we got you. Rat-ta-tat-tat!”

   • 1981, The Journalism Research Fellows Report: What Makes an Effective School?‎^[5], Institute for Educational Leadership, →OCLC, page 91:

     So are many of the quiet, orderly scenes in the school's halls. Children come back from recess on the run, pushing and shoving. One child three days in a row yells, “Niggerskins, niggerskins,” at another who is foreign-born.

   • 1999 September 17, nitro, “to all niggerskins,queerskins,and jewskins”, in alt.skinheads‎^[6] (Usenet):