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Difference between Negro head and Nigger head

negro head

1. (dated) a nest of tree-ants:

  • The color of these nests is black, from which, and their irregular surface and orbicular shape, they have been called Negro Heads.

2. strong black plug tobacco:

  • He thrust a prodigious quid of negro head tobacco into his left cheek.

3. india-rubber of an inferior quality:

  • The proportions of “fine” and “negrohead” rubbers depend on the appliances and care of the collectors.

4. a projecting stump of dead coral:

  • Reefs are broken into blocks, the large mushroom-shaped fragments are thrown up onto the beaches, where they form “negro-heads.”

nigger head

1. a tangled mass of the roots and decayed remains of plants projecting from a swamp:

  • We plunged into a mire of muddy water and “nigger-heads.”

2. any of various spherical cacti of the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus:

  • The kind commonly called the nigger head is round, of the size of a cabbage, and covered with large, crooked, catlike thorns.

3. = negro head 2:

  • He had accepted as much strong “niggerhead” as would have stocked a tobacconist’s shop.

4. = negro head 4:

  • A crowd of “nigger heads,” black points of coral rock, peep up in places.

5. (U.S. hist., derog.) an advocate of political rights for Black people:

  • They were Democrats, and retorted upon violent Union men by calling them Niggerheads.

6. a yellow flower with a dark center (Rudbeckia hirta):

  • A number of composites with yellow rays and dark centers are commonly known as niggerheads, though the more polite term is blackeyed Susan.