nigger in the woodpile การใช้

• The article List _ of _ American _ films _ of _ 1904 has a red link for A Nigger in the Woodpile.
• Also in the audio book, the title of Chapter 18 is A Cuckoo in the Nest, changed from A Nigger in the Woodpile, in early texts.
• It also is or was a colloquial technical term in industry, mining, and seafaring . " Nigger " as " defect " ( a hidden problem ), derives from " nigger in the woodpile ", a US slave-era phrase denoting escaped slaves hiding in train-transported woodpiles.
• One of the American characters, on the brink of closing a business deal, says to the narrator, " I ll fly down to Texas to give the outfit the once-over, and you bet I ll keep my eyes peeled for a nigger in the woodpile before I cough up any . . . dough . 
• *The euphemistic title " Politic " is Hartford's playful bow to contemporary " political correctness " concerning a certain word from an earlier era of American history-- the tune has traditionally been commonly known as " Nigger In The Woodpile, " a phrase which originated in the mid-19th century in the context of Southern runaway slaves hiding in freight-wagons loaded with wood in their attempts to flee to the North.
• Nigra ( 1944 ), on the other hand, in certain uses reflects a pronunciation of negro meant to suggest nigger, and is thus deemed ( according to a 1960 slang dictionary ) " even more derog [ atory ] than'nigger .'" Slang phrase nigger in the woodpile attested by 1800; " A mode of accounting for the disappearance of fuel; an unsolved mystery " [ R . H . Thornton, " American Glossary, " 1912 ].