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blackamoor

DEFINITIONS OF: blackamoor

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n a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

Synonyms:
Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid
Types:
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Negress
a Black woman or girl
Black man
a man who is Black
Black woman
a woman who is Black
colored, colored person
a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
darkey, darkie, darky
(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people
coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
Tom, Uncle Tom
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child
soul brother
a fellow Black man
boy
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
Type of:
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being
person of color, person of colour
(formal) any non-European non-white person
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