n-word

  1. Noun.  (euphemistic) The words (term, nigger) and (term, nigga) .
  2. Noun.  (euphemistic) Any word beginning with ''n'' that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
  3. Noun.  (linguistics) Negation words, such as ''not'', ''nobody'', and ''nothing''. .
  4. Noun.  (linguistics) Danish nouns of the common gender, as opposed to ''t-words'', nouns of the neuter gender.

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