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1. nvs., Nigger, black, blackness, blackened; a term of derision for a marble player who misses a shot.

• Eng.
• Related:
  • Keaka nika, minstrel show.
• References:
  • See ex., kūloku.

2. Same as māikoiko, a variety of sugar cane.

3. n., A variety of sweet potato; sometimes qualified by the terms ʻeleʻele, keʻokeʻo, nui.

• Related:
  • Also: pāʻele.

adj. Black; deep blue; dark colored.

s. The vulgar orthography for negero, as nigger is in English for negro; a black man.

Black; deep blue; dark colored.

1. A being black; blackness.

2. Incorrect form of negero, a negro, as nigger is in English for negro; a black man.

Nigger, vulgar term for a negro; black.

Nigger, formerly called pāʻele, is a sweet potato of Kona with broad, deeply indented five-point leaves, green veins, white flesh when raw and dark after cooking. (HP 142.)

nigger.