Eboen.

/ˈiːbəʊ/

Forms: 1700s– Ebo, 1700s– Eboe; in attributive uses also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Igbo adj.

Etymology: Originally a variant of Igbo adj., now distinguished in form in the uses below.

A name applied in the West Indies and U.S. to Africans from Benin. The same term as Igbo adj. and n. in West Africa, but used with wider application in the West Indies. Hence attributive eboe-tree n. ( Dipteryx eboensis) a tree of Central America, yielding eboe oil n. a name also given to the oil of a different tree; see quot. 1866.

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1732 South Carolina Gaz. 20/1 Stolen..an old Ebo Negro Man;..had on a blue Negro Cloth Frock.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. ii. 403 The Ebo men are lazy, and averse to every laborious employment; the women performing almost all the work in their own country.

a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 126 Immediately after the christening the Eboe drums were produced.

a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 190 The mortification of the Eboes.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 476 Aleurites triloba [candleberry-tree] yields eboe oil.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eboe
释义	Eboen. /ˈiːbəʊ/ Forms: 1700s– Ebo, 1700s– Eboe; in attributive uses also with lower-case initial. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Igbo adj. Etymology: Originally a variant of Igbo adj., now distinguished in form in the uses below. A name applied in the West Indies and U.S. to Africans from Benin. The same term as Igbo adj. and n. in West Africa, but used with wider application in the West Indies. Hence attributive eboe-tree n. ( Dipteryx eboensis) a tree of Central America, yielding eboe oil n. a name also given to the oil of a different tree; see quot. 1866. ΚΠ 1732 South Carolina Gaz. 20/1 Stolen..an old Ebo Negro Man;..had on a blue Negro Cloth Frock. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. ii. 403 The Ebo men are lazy, and averse to every laborious employment; the women performing almost all the work in their own country. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 126 Immediately after the christening the Eboe drums were produced. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 190 The mortification of the Eboes. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 476 Aleurites triloba [candleberry-tree] yields eboe oil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1732
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