blackspeak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"It sounds odd to us now, but contemporary sources... suggest how the archaic blackspeak that we associate with blackface performers had some of the aura of the later white appropriations of black speech."
"Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak."
"Like Hawk, he moved easily in and out of blackspeak as it suited him."

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black English -speak English blackspeak From black + -speak.

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