shvartze
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Is shvartze a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of shvartze?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (Jewish, US, now offensive, ethnic slur) A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person.Examples: "[…] she irons better even than the schvartze,"; "1975, Robert Greenfield, The Spiritual Supermarket, New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., p. 6, From the rabbi to the “shvartze,” the black man who turned on the synagogue’s lights on Saturdays, he was liked."; "1988, Leon Uris, Mitla Pass, New York: Doubleday, Part 3, “Baltimore 1902-1913,” p. 270, […] they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house."JewishUSethnicoffensiveslur
adj (English)
1. (Jewish, US, now offensive, ethnic slur) Of sub-Saharan African descent; of or pertaining to people of sub-Saharan African descent; black.Examples: "There was a shvartze wedding next door and something else too . . . some anniversary party."; "2012, Steve Stern, “The Tale of a Kite” in The Book of Mischief, Minneapolis: Graywolf Fress, p. 9, Ordinarily Boss Crump and his entourage […] like to tour the individual shops, receiving the tributes his shvartze valet shleps out to a waiting limousine."JewishUSethnicnot-comparableoffensiveslur
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary