spiggoty

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Noun

spiggoty (plural spiggoties)

  1. (US, ethnic slur) Synonym of spic (“Latino; Latin American”)
    • 1914, The Black Cat (volume 20, page 36)
      He deserted, and for the sake of a girl, a spiggoty girl?
    • 1918, Jack London, The Red One:
      I lost my fireman; and the conductor and the Superintendent of Rolling Stock […] had their heads knifed off by the Spiggoties and paraded around on poles.
    • 1938, L. Ron Hubbard, Six-Gun Caballero:
      Before Lefty Bill could drop his hammer, the spiggoty had turned around, drawed and let drive.
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