Shaniqua
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
Shaniqua
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
- 2008 May 1, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting Bill Cosby, “‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’”, in The Atlantic:
- Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.
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Noun
Shaniqua (plural Shaniquas)
- (slang, often derogatory) An African-American woman.
- 2007, Isis I., Shaded Canvas, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 72:
- Maybe he should have started a while ago and upstaged actors for their menacing portrayal of the Shaniquas and the Sha-nay-nays on television.
- 2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista, UPNE, →ISBN, page 24:
- So vexed was Cosby at this kind of black significance that he went out and spoke against it in town-hall meetings across the country, meetings in which the Shaniquas and Shaliguas actually showed up to hear what he had to say.
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See also
- Tyrone