jungle bunny
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Etymology
Originally US English, 1950s. From jungle (“referring to the alleged origins of black people in the African jungles”) + bunny.[1]
Noun
jungle bunny (plural jungle bunnies)
- (US, UK, ethnic slur, derogatory) A black person.
- 1952 December 18, The South Side Times, Fort Wayne, Indiana, page 8, column 6:
- Merry Christmas to all the little jungle-bunnies. — From momma jungle bunny.
- 1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:
- "[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."
- 2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, page 90:
- He doesn't say Judge Brown's last name, telling me Brown's just another jungle bunny far as he's concerned, robe or no robe.
References
- Jonathon Green Green's Dictionary of Slang https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/hktko3y#ktha5ja .
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