Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

samboism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sam-bo-ism
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Botsford wrote Sambo and Toney, which was designed to teach Christian lessons to the slaves, or, as a Negro today would say, it taught the essence of Samboism."
"By skeptically observing whites' pretense to paternalism and slaves' pretense to Samboism, the slaveholder became mistrustful of everyone's performances."

Etymology

From Sambo + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Sambo

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

Uncle Tom

Frequently Paired Words

Uncle Tom

Synonyms

Uncle Tommery Uncle Tommism

Questions

What does samboism mean?: A servile attitude adopted by black people toward white authority.
Where does samboism come from?: From Sambo + -ism.

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