| 释义 |
blackball, v.|ˈblækbɔːl|
[see prec.]
1. To exclude (a person) from a club or other society by adverse votes, recorded by the placing of black balls in the ballot-box, or in other ways.
1770Mrs. Delany Lett. Ser. ii. I. 262 The Duchess of Bedford was at first black-balled, but is since admitted. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. i. 135, I shall make a note to blackball him at the Athenæum. 1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side xi. 83 There are no rules in this club..nobody is ever blackballed, nobody is ever proposed.
2. To exclude from society; to ostracize, taboo.
1840Macaulay Clive, Ess. (1854) 534 The Dilettante sneered at their want of taste. The Maccaroni blackballed them [‘nabobs’] as vulgar fellows. 1861Crt. Life Naples 88 All foreigners are not to be blackballed.
3. To blacken with black-ball.
1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 92 With big blackballed whiskers under his nose.
Hence ˈblackballer, ˈblackballing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1869Spectator 3 July 779 The blackballer declines to associate with the person blackballed, if he can help it. 1826Scott in Lockhart (1839) IX. 43 Here is an ample subject for a little blackballing in the case of Joseph Hume. 1865Times 23 Aug., The most inexorable blackballing club. |