ziggaboo

English

Noun

ziggaboo (plural ziggaboos)

1. (ethnic slur, derogatory, African-American Vernacular) A nigger, negro; synonym of jigaboo.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 148:

     Right now she got money enough in de bank tuh buy up dese ziggaboos and give ’em away.”

Alternative forms

• zigaboo