Definitions for nigger

Wiktionary

nigger(Noun)
A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent.
nigger(Noun)
A person of Negro descent who acts in an unapproved manner, usually as an archetypical badass.
I love black people, but I hate niggers. u2014 Chris Rock
nigger(Noun)
Informal term of address.
nigger(Verb)
To clear land by means of the niggering process.
nigger(Verb)
To behave as a stereotypical black person.
nigger(Verb)
To treat as inferior.

Origin: Ultimately from the adjective niger, meaning "black". Several Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc) have the word "negro" meaning "black" (in colour) derived from the Latin "niger", while French has noir, its nègre being borrowed from Spanish. During the period in America's history when black workers were shipped to America to work as slaves, this word came to be adopted from the Hispanic South American languages to describe a person of dark skin. Essentially, a "negro" person simply means a "black" person. Through constant repetition of the Spanish word in the American accent, it seems likely that the word was corrupted from "negro" to "niggero" to simply "nigger".