(offensive, ethnic slur) Alternative form of jigaboo
1928, Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, Northeastern University Press (1987), ISBN 1-55553-024-9, page 322:“That zigaboo is a singing fool,†remarked Jake.
1942, Zora Neale Hurston, “Story in Harlem Slangâ€, in , Volume 45 (July 1942), reprinted in Alan Dundes (editor), Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel, University Press of Mississippi (1973), ISBN 0-87805-478-2, page 222:Wait till I light up my coal-pot and I’ll tell you about this Zigaboo called Jelly.
a.1996 C. Eric Lincoln, in Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, Duke University Press (1996), ISBN 0-8223-1736-2, page 3:“Mommie,†the little girl announced in a confidential stage whisper: “Mommie, there is a ‘zigaboo’ behind you!†The mother turned and looked squarely into my eyes. Did she see a “zigaboo?†I wondered. She gave no hint.
