house nigger

== English == === Etymology === By analogy with slaves that worked predominantly indoors during US slavery who were trained with more skills than basic field hands or plantation niggers. === Pronunciation === === Noun === house nigger (plural house niggers) (dated, now offensive) A black slave that worked as a domestic as opposed to manual laborer. (derogatory, ethnic slur, idiomatic) A subservient or accultured black person; an Uncle Tom or black race traitor.