nigger grin
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.15 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The women here were not so much frightened at strangers, or made to keep themselves so much secluded as among the Malay races; the children were more merry and had the "nigger grin," while the noisy confusion of tongues among the men, and their excitement on very ordinary occasions, are altogether removed from the general taciturnity and reserve of the Malay."
- "His own mother would not have known him as he stepped into the ring on the night appointed for the battle, clad in a complete suit of brown varnish and a pair of white drawers, his woolly scalp a mass of thick, black curls, and wearing the traditional nigger grin, with its rows of shining ivories."
- "As for my trip to the Never Never, well, one lives and learns. I landed safely among a tribe of blacks, and asked an old buck with a white ziff if the 'Marys' of his tribe used paint and powder. He answered with an exceedingly broad nigger grin that 'they use'm charcoal.'"