I looked in two dictionaries and didn't find it. lied about it being in the dictionary (I wasn't gullible and knew he was lying), but like you figured it plausibly could be in pre Civil War or Civil Rights era dictionaries.
An American dictionary of the English language, published 1852. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0bv8rn1n&view=1up&seq=703
Webster's new modern English dictionary, published 1922. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t21c38g05&view=1up&seq=670
I could find it in two dictionaries, so it's not in any dictionary and he lied
Are you that stupid?
Put up or shut up. Library of Congress.
https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/126934
- A dark-skinned person of sub-Saharan African origin or descent
ALL blacks are niggers. Even niggers use it in reference to all blacks. Even they know what the word means, yet you don't. Now shut the fuck up, nigger lover, since YOU couldn't put up.
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