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Sambo   Listen
noun
Sambo  n.  A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sambo" Quotes from Famous Books



... good business, Sambo," said Sarah to a black man that sat preparing some peas to plant, "he ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna

... had seized a poignard at his girdle, and was about to have rushed on the impassable aggressor, when a guttural cry, like that of the cilguero, (a kind of linnet of Peru,) re-echoed in the midst of the tumult of promenaders, and the Sambo disappeared. ...
— The Pearl of Lima - A Story of True Love • Jules Verne

... about. And who should he see there, of all people in the world, but Mrs. Delano and her adoptee, escorted by that young clerk. Think of her, with her dove-colored silks and violet gloves, crowded and jostled by Dinah and Sambo! I expect the next thing we shall hear will be that she has given ...
— A Romance of the Republic • Lydia Maria Francis Child



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