(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Like or characteristic of a nigger.
1866, The Atlantic Monthly:So when I say that my Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind...
1886, Michael Magaul & Eli Robinson McCall, No-history Versus No-war or The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed, p. 261:They should specially avoid the fanatics who ... have temporarily changed a federal republic into a sort of niggerish monarchy or empire ...
1958, "Talking About", Jet, Vol. 14, No. 3, p. 47:She told him in her native Virginia mountain-area dialect: "That's what ah said. Ah don't like these niggerish places."
2002, Loretta I Winters, Herman L DeBose, New faces in a changing America:In a voice dripping with sarcasm, Bernhard related, "Mariah's been getting a little niggerish on us... she been seeing those rap stars..."
