💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Blackfacing"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| minstrelnoun | (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment. |
| minstrelsynoun | The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel. |
| blackfacenoun | (uncountable) The practice in which a nonblack person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person. |
| brownfacenoun | A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race. |
| minstrel shownoun | (theater) A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface. |
| chocolate facenoun | One whose face is covered in chocolate. |
| blackwashernoun | One who blackwashes. |
| blacksternoun | (music, slang, rare) A fan of black metal music. |
| negroismnoun | (dated, now offensive) A behaviour, speech pattern, etc. characteristic of black people. |
| blecknoun | Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease. |
| blaxnoun | — |
| bootblacknoun | (dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation. |
| blackamoornoun | (now offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child. |
| black looknoun | Synonym of dirty look. |
| blackfolknoun | (informal) Black people. |
| blackskinnoun | (obsolete) Somebody with dark-coloured flesh. |
| blacktressnoun | (slang, film, rare) An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry. |
| blindernoun | Something that blinds, literally or figuratively. |
| panfacenoun | (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Chinese person. |
| screwfacenoun | (African-American Vernacular, Jamaica, MLE, slang) A contorted facial expression of anger, frustration, or aggression. |
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