Niggerhead

Quick meaning: Niggerhead is a noun meaning (nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.

Meaning

(nautical, dated, now offensive) A bollard made from an old cannon.

More Meanings

1. (geology, archaic, colloquial, now offensive) A geode.
2. (now offensive) A coneflower.
3. (now offensive) A coral or stone outcrop that stands above the surface of the water.
4. (US, Alaska, dated, now offensive) A tussock (clump of plant material), found on the tundra.
5. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A strong black variety of chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form.
6. (archaic, offensive, dialectal) A stone, piece of gangue, or lump of coal that is of a grade with a certain size.
7. (vulgar, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A term of abuse for a black person.

Example Sentences

These plants fill the interstices between the grasses and tiny shrubs that make the outer, fuller form of the niggerhead.

Landward is the almost unbroken wall of submerged reefs where the big niggerhead corals send their solid bulks up to within a fathom or two of the surface.

Much of the land is tundra, a mass of spongy, waterlogged clumps of sphagnum moss called tussock, muskeg, hummock, or in the vernacular of old-time Alaskans “niggerheads.”

Responsible in large part for the difficulties of movement to which the geologists referred were tussocks, still known as “niggerheads” in the 1930s. The “niggerhead,” according to Bob Marshall, “among the gifts of nature, ranks as the most cursed.[…]”

Word Forms

• niggerheads
• nigger head

Synonyms for niggerhead

Depending on context, synonyms include hardhead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nigger-head, nogger, n-bomb, nigger, niggerfuck, niggerdick.

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