Slang phrase nigger during the woodpile "a hid motive or not known variable influencing a situation within an adverse way" [OED 1989] is attested by 1800; Thornton's "American Glossary" (1912) defines it as "A manner of accounting for the disappearance of gasoline," hence "an unsolved secret.In summary, the use of the phrase "Niga" is never satisfa