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boycott, v.|ˈbɔɪkɒt|
Formerly also Boycott.
[f. the name of Capt. Boycott, an Irish landlord, who was the original victim of the treatment described.]
trans. To combine in refusing to hold relations of any kind, social or commercial, public or private, with (a neighbour), on account of political or other differences, so as to punish him for the position he has taken up, or coerce him into abandoning it. The word arose in the autumn of 1880, to describe the action instituted by the Irish Land League towards those who incurred its hostility. It was speedily adopted by the newspapers in nearly every European language (e.g. F. boycotter, Du. boycotten, Ger. boycottiren, Russ. boĭkottīrovat, etc.).
1880Times 20 Nov. 10/1 The people of New Pallas have resolved to ‘Boycott’ them and refused to supply them with food or drink. 1880Daily News 13 Dec. 3/1 Already the stoutest-hearted are yielding on every side to the dread of being ‘Boycotted’. 1880Illust. Lond. News LXXVII. 587/1 To ‘Boycott’ has already become a verb active, signifying to ‘ratten’, to intimidate, to ‘send to Coventry’, and to ‘taboo’. 1881Q. Rev. 117 The lineal ancestors of the Land League ‘boycotted’ the poet. 1886Times 2 Feb. 10/1 On September 19, 1880, Mr. Parnell formulated the law of boycotting in the town of Ennis, county Clare.
b. transf. and fig.
1881Spectator 22 Jan. 119 Dame Nature arose..She ‘Boycotted’ London from Kew to Mile End. 1881Daily News 19 May 5/3 You cannot Boycott human nature. That entity..always gets the better of the Boycotter in the long run. 1882L. Stephen Swift vii. 157 Briefly, the half-pence were to be ‘Boycotted’.
Hence ˈboyˌcotted ppl. a., ˌboycoˈttee, ˈboyˌcotter, ˈboyˌcotting vbl. n., ˈboycoˌttism; also ˈboycott n. = boycotting; (U.S.) an application of boycotting.
1880J. Dillon Speech at Cashel 17 Nov. (Times 19 Nov. 6/1) They had yet to study a branch of new Land law known as Boycotting. 1880Times Dec. 9 They also do not feel warranted in regarding the threat of Boycott as one which comes within the Act. 1880Daily News 25 Dec. 6/3 So long as a railway station is near him, the ‘Boycottee’, if he have only two or three servants to stand firm, can practically bring the Boycotters to their wits' end. 1881Gladstone in Standard 28 Oct. 3/3 The neighbours of the Boycotted man refuse to hold any intercourse with him and his family; they will not eat with him, drink with him, buy from him, or sell to him. 1881Ld. Derby in 19th Cent. Oct. 481 Capital [in Ireland] is timid; boycotting, intimidation, and outrage do not attract it. 1881Declaration in Standard 19 Feb. 3/6 We loathe and detest the very idea of a man seeking his ends by murder, by outrage, by Boycottism. 1883Monier Williams Rel. Thought Ind. I. xviii. 472 India has furnished examples of Boycotters and Boycottees, for many centuries. 1885Pall Mall G. 19 Nov. 3/2 Those who have continued to hire Chinese labour and patronize the same since the Boycott. |