Thesaurus:person of color
English
Noun
Sense: non-white person
Synonyms
- BIPOC (PC)
- BME (Britain)
- colored [⇒ thesaurus] (potentially offensive)
- colored person (potentially offensive, dated)
- minority (in white majority countries)
- nonwhite (uncommon)
- person of color (PC)
Hyponyms
Offensive hyponyms
- blackamoor (dated)
- blackie
- brillo pad
- brownie
- burrhead
- camel jockey
- coon
- cotton picker
- darkey
- darkie
- darky
- dindu nuffin
- dune coon
- groid
- jigaboo
- jungle bunny
- kaffir
- monkey [⇒ thesaurus]
- munt (Rhodesia)
- Negro (dated)
- negress
- negrette (rare)
- nig
- nigcel
- nigga (typically offensive)
- nigger
- niggerfaggot
- nig-nog
- niglet
- niglette
- pekkie (South Africa)
- pickaninny
- porch monkey
- Sambo
- sand nigger
- sheboon
- shitskin
- smoked Irish (dated)
- smoked Irishman (dated)
- spade
- spearchucker
- spook
- tar baby
- wetback
- wog (Britain)
- woolly-head
- zot
Hypernyms
See also
- visible minority
- Category:English ethnic slurs
- Thesaurus:white person
Further reading
- “431. blackness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “black man” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.