单词 | negrillo |
释义 | Negrillon.adj. Chiefly Cultural Anthropology. A. n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > negrillo Negrillo1850 1850 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 544 These eleven varieties Dr. Pickering classifies by their color as follows:..Four blackish-brown;—The Papuan, the Negrillo, the Telingan, or dark East Indian, and the Ethiopian. 1855 J. C. Nott & G. R. Gliddon Types of Mankind (ed. 7) p. lxxii The Telingan race in anterior India, the Malays in posterior India and upon the islands, upon which the Negrillos occur with them. 1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 8 The extreme of the elongated type is the Southern Savage—the Negro, Negrillo, and Australian. 1878 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. at Negrillos, Negritos By the general rule of wild-men of the Philippines are the typical Negrillos. 2. A member of any African pygmy people. Also (rare) applied more generally to other African peoples, esp. Bushmen.This sense, in which Negrillo is opposed to Negrito (see quots. 1887, 1896) derives from the work of two French anthropologists, Jules Hamy (1842–1908) and Armand de Quatrefarges (1810–92), and rapidly superseded sense A. 1 in English. ΚΠ 1880 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 131 A small race of round-headed Negroes from West Africa are mentioned by hamy under the name of Negrillos. 1887 Science 10 174/1 De Quatrefarges considers all Asiatic dwarfish tribes as one group, which he calls Negrito, while the African ones are called Negrillo. 1896 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 417 The term negrillo has been suggested for the totality of pygmy peoples in Africa. The term negrito is applied to the little peoples of Asia. 1926 Q. Rev. Biol. 1 360/1 This finds its extreme manifestation among the Negrillos of Africa, the Negritos of the Pacific, and the Malays. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvii. 769 In forested central Africa the Pygmies, Negritos, or Negrillos live in many scattered localities among full-statured Bantu Negroes. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Religion, study of Investigations of such primitive societies as those of the Tierra del Fuegians (South America), the Negrillos of Rwanda (Africa), and the Andaman Islanders (Indian Ocean). Originally: of or relating to Negritos. Later: of or relating to Negrillos. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1860 M. Reid Odd People 415 The Samangs—a tribe inhabiting the mountainous parts of the Malayan peninsula—are also a negro or negrillo race. 1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 9 In this tendency towards brachycephalism they bear out Hamy's views as to one of the general characteristics of the ‘Negrillo’ race. 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I. at Akka One of the northern group of Negrillo dwarfs, living in the forest region of Central Africa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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