单词 | non-voter |
释义 | non-votern. 1. A person who does not vote or is not entitled to vote. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > other types out-voter1837 non-voter1851 absentee1864 absent voter1867 silent voter1872 floating voter1905 1851 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Aug. 98 (heading) The proportion of males, voters and non-voters, to the above population. 1884 Chicago Herald in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 639 The non-voters..constitute the muscle and sinew of the campaign racketry. 1924 C. E. Merriam & H. F. Gosnell Non-voting i. 9 Three types of non-voters may be distinguished in the community: (1) the non-naturalized, (2) the non-registered, and (3) the registered and non-voting citizen. 1970 G. Germani in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xvi. 599 Most of the support for the Nazi Party could have come from persons who in previous elections were nonvoters. 2000 N.Y. Times 27 Aug. iv. 4/1 Assessing opinions is an inexact science... Nonvoters who become voters may be motivated by something that also changed their minds. 2. South African colloquial (ironic). In urban (esp. township) use: a black person. Now historical.Coined by K. M. C. Motsisi (see quot. 1966) with reference to the fact that black South Africans had no vote during the apartheid era. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1966 K. M. C. Motsisi in Drum 30 Jan. 20 I turn around and recognise this non-voter as none other than Sis Well—the doll at whose wedding we sang. 1982 Voice 31 Jan. 3 The lack of land for non-voters and such legislation as the Urban Areas Act, made it impossible for Blacks to be in a position to generate the necessary finance to build their own houses. 1987 Drum (Johannesburg) Apr. 33 For a moment I thought this non-voter was either forgetting himself or had become certifiable. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1851 |
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