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******, often shortened to ***, is a pejorative term used chiefly in North America primarily to refer to a gay man. Alongside its use to refer to homosexual men in particular, it may also be used as a pejorative term for a "repellent male". Its use has spread from the United States to varying extents elsewhere in the English-speaking world through mass culture.
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****** is a noun in the English language. The word originated as a neutral term referring to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger ("color black"). Often used disparagingly, by the mid 20th century, particularly in the United States, it suggested that its target is extremely unsophisticated. Its usage had become unambiguously pejorative, an ethnic slur usually directed at blacks of Sub-Saharan African descent.
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