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jigaboo

[jig-uh-boo] Origin

jig·a·boo

[jig-uh-boo]
noun, plural -boos. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a black person.

Origin:
1905–10, Americanism; perhaps blend of jijiboo (with same sense, origin uncertain) or jig4 and bugaboo
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Jigaboo is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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Word Origin & History

jigaboo
insulting name for "a black person," 1909, perhaps from jig (q.v.), which had been applied insultingly to persons since late 18c., and ending from bugaboo.
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