shvartze

Alternative forms

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Etymology
Borrowed from, feminine and plural form of. The feminine form may have been generalized from the use of the term to refer to a female domestic worker. .

Noun

 * 1)  A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person.
 * 2) * 1975,, 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.
 * 1) * 1988,, , New York: Doubleday, Part3, “Baltimore 1902-1913,” p.270,
 * they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house.
 * they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of sub-Saharan African descent; of or pertaining to people of sub-Saharan African descent; black.
 * 2) * 2012,, “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.
 * Ordinarily Boss Crump and his entourage like to tour the individual shops, receiving the tributes his shvartze valet shleps out to a waiting limousine.