wigger

/ ˈwɪɡə /

noun

1. slang.
   a white youth who adopts black youth culture by adopting its speech, wearing its clothes, and listening to its music

Word History and Origins

Origin of wigger¹

C20: from a blend of white + nigger

Example Sentences

“I can read this to you,” I tell my daughter, of “Wigger.”

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So, Susanna is still in the hospital; Wigger is in far-off Switzerland.

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A self-pitying, egotistical artist type finds an abandoned pink rag—the beloved Wigger—and climbs up a mountain with it, as his sort of refusenik art project, on Christmas Eve.

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“Wigger” satisfies both my daughter’s longing for zigs and zags and my longing for the straightest line possible: the story ends exactly where it begins.

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“And Wigger was still all she had,” Goldman writes.

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