Nigger in the Woodpile

[Jessie Emerson]

My experience is just the opposite, only used by whites, but never by
blacks.

Jessie Emerson


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Shapiro"
Subject: Nigger in the Woodpile


> Another list serv is having a thread about the expression "nigger in the
woodpile."  One participant is arguing stridently that one of the meanings
of this phrase, an unacknowledged black forebear of a white child, is used
only by blacks and is not used by whites.