n-word

• N-word

n-word (plural n-words)

1. (euphemistic) The word nigger or nigga or nigra.
2. (humorous) Any word beginning with n that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
   1. (euphemistic) The word Nazi.
      • 2009, Todd Wilbur, Top Secret Recipes Unlocked: All New Home Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods:

        After that episode aired a new rule was posted: "Do not mention the N Word (Nazi)!"

      • 2014, Ian Tinny & ‎Rex Curry, Rex Curry BFFs Analects, →ISBN:

        The preceding poem inspired the “Not Say Nazi” movement to stamp out widespread ignorance and to abolish the N-word and the F-word.

      • 2015, Koenraad Elst, Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity, page 67:

        By dropping the N-word, you don't just stop the thinking processes in most of your audience; if you're not careful, you also stop your own mind from functioning. Most of these Nazi detectives conclude with their "revelation" that X has Nazi connections, and then expect the public to erupt in indignant outbursts of hate against X.

      • 2016, Olivia Cadaval,Sojin Kim, & Diana Baird N'Diaye, Curatorial Conversations:

        Americans realize that von Braun had been a member of the Nazi party and an officer in the SS and that the V-2 was constructed using forced labor from concentration camps who were worked to death (2012). NASA refused to budge from its position. Regrettably, CFCH retreated and removed the offending N word.

3. (linguistics) Negation words, such as not, nobody, and nothing.
4. (linguistics) Danish/Swedish/Norwegian nouns of the common gender (their indefinite article being en), as opposed to t-words, nouns of the neuter gender (their indefinite article being et).

• (euphemism for nigger): n-bomb

• (‘x’-word euphemisms) a-word, b-word, c-word, d-word, f-word, g-word / G-word, h-word, i-word, j-word, k-word, l-word, m-word, n-word, o-word, p-word, q-word / Q-word, r-word, s-word, t-word, v-word, w-word; see also C-bomb, f-bomb, L-bomb, n-bomb

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