blackbirdn.

Brit.

/ˈblakbəːd/, U.S.

/ˈblækˌbərd/

Forms: see black adj. and n. and bird n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., bird n.

Etymology: < black adj. + bird n.With sense 3a compare earlier blackbirding n. With sense 3b compare earlier blackbirding n. and slightly later blackbirder n. 1. The surname Blackbird (1279 as William Blakebird ) probably shows beard n. rather than bird n. as second element; compare the variant spellings Brunstanus Blachebiert (1066), William Blacberd (1206), Thomas Blakeberd (1275), which all support this interpretation.

a. A common Eurasian thrush, Turdus merula, of which the male has black plumage and a yellow bill and is noted for its melodious song, and the female is dark brown.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus merula (blackbird)

ouzeleOE

blackbirdc1350

merula1398

merle1483

black-mack1519

blackie1841

c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 24* Osele, blacbrid.

1486 Bk. St. Albans D j a For the blacke bride and the thrushe.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blacke byrde or owsyl, turdus.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Litorne, a birde of the bignesse of a blacke bird called a wing thrushe.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. lxvii. 898 The strongest and stoutest birde that can be, is the blacke birde.

1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 19 At her call, Comes Blackbird, Linit, Alph, Thrush, Nightingal, Melodious warblers.

1745 T. Warton Inscript. Hermitage ii Within my limits lone and still The blackbird pipes in artless trill.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 92 The Blackbird..begins to sing early in the spring.

1851 Beck's Florist 19 I'd pull a lot of sparrows, or maybe some blackbirds and thrushes, and then cut 'em down the back, and fill their bodies full of bread.

1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 131 In glass cases are..a white blackbird, and a diver.

1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xiii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 600 The weir murmuring, the blackbirds and the cuckoos calling.

1987 B. Duffy World as I found It (1990) 74 The windy green of Great Court was filled with what looked like a flock of fluttering blackbirds as students and dons winged by in their black gowns.

2008 J. Quinn Goodnight Ballivor xiv. 72 We spent hours of anticipation and delight in finding the nest of a thrush or blackbird.

†b. figurative. A songster. Obsolete.In quot. a1640 referring to black slaves, so used punningly.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer by type of voice > [noun] > sweet singer

nightingale?a1500

siren1592

blackbirda1640

bulbul1848

songbird1874

a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iv. iii. 93 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Cit. There's your money; I'll have 'em, if it be to sing in Cages. Mas. Give 'em hard Eggs, you never had such Black-birds.

c. British regional. With distinguishing word. The ring ouzel, Turdus torquatus, which is closely related to the blackbird. Now rare.Michaelmas, moor, mountain, ring blackbird, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus torquatus (ring-ouzel)

ouzela1525

ring ouzel1673

heath-throstle1676

mountain ouzel1678

rock ouzel1678

amsela1705

tor ouzel1770

ring thrush1785

blackbird1802

Michaelmas blackbird1802

heath-thrush1804

ring blackbird1817

ringed thrush1817

moor blackbird1837

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Ouzel—Ring These birds appear in Portland in their spring and autumnal flights, and are there called Michaelmas Blackbirds.

1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 100 Turdus torquatus. The Ringed Thrush, or Ring Ouzel... Moor Blackbird.

1888 Monthly Chron. North-Country Lore & Legend Nov. 493/2 It [sc. the ring ouzel] is known as the rock ouzel, mountain blackbird, moor blackbird,..and ringed blackbird.

1971 Country Life 3 June 1351/1 Then there were mountain larks and mountain blackbirds (pipits and ousels).

a. Originally North American. Any of various grackles and other birds of the New World family Icteridae, esp. of the genus Agelaius, having strong pointed bills and harsh voices, and males that typically have black plumage that is iridescent or has patches of red or yellow. Usually with distinguishing word.American, crow, marsh, red-winged, rusty blackbird, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > miscellaneous types of

blackbird1602

grackle1772

oropendola1860

yellowhead1868

thrush-blackbird1889

1602 J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 12 We saw in the country..Doves, Sea-pies, Blacke-birds with carnation wings.

1643 R. Williams Key Lang. Amer. xv. 89 Which mysticall Fowle follow the sowing of the Word..as these Black-birds follow the materiall seed.

1685 T. Budd Good Order established in Pennsylvania & New-Jersey 34 The Woods are furnished with store of Wild Fowl, as Turkeys, Pheasants, Heath-Cocks, Partridges, Pidgeons, Blackbirds, &c.

?1769 Catal. Cabinet of Birds 2 The Red-wing'd Blackbird, well known.

1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 37 Starlings..are known by various names in the different states of the union; such as the Swamp Blackbird, Marsh Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird.

1846 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (30th Congress, 1st Sess.) (1848) IV. No. 41. 436 [We saw] large flocks of the yellow headed black bird.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 286/1 Our own native blackbirds, the crow blackbird, the rusty grackle, the cow-bird and the red-shouldered starling are not songsters.

1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 54 The Red-winged Blackbird is one of the easiest birds to identify by his song.

1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xviii. 236 They [sc. mockingbirds] do not supplement and support each other as a singing treeful of blackbirds, grackles, meadow larks, or other Icteridae do.

2003 Guardian 17 Feb. i. 20/2 Here, we finally saw the aptly-named Blue Mountain vireo, together with the rare Jamaican blackbird.

†b. With distinguishing word. Any of various other birds with predominantly black plumage. Obsolete.pied, savannah, water blackbird, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified

tidifec1385

tymor?a1400

holste14..

popard1411

popera1450

wercocka1475

tytyferc1565

caladrie1567

butwin1570

brandlet1576

pecteale1579

stockard1579

tanterueale1579

pyralis1580

twite1582

gnat-snapper1598

herodian1609

grindle1610

skirwingle1610

spawe1610

tydie1612

fillady1620

wake1623

gnat-gnapper1627

blackbird1678

ricebird1704

long tongue1731

angle-taster1744

stearing1769

weaver-oriole1782

weaver-bunting1783

sedge-wren1802

satin grackle1822

Audubon1837

nankeen bird1837

fife-bird1854

jug1881

upholsterer1890

1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 194 The red-breasted Indian Blackbird, perchance the Jacapu of Marggrave.

1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 19 The Chinese Starling or Black-Bird.

1748 M. Catesby California App. 103 The Razor-billed Black-bird of Jamaica. This Bird is somewhat less than our Jack-daw.

?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. VII. 59 The pied blackbird, variegated with white and black.

1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 174 The only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird).

1876 J. Robinson George Linton xv. 159 Hosts of tiny rooibeks, grey canaries, blue-winged blackbirds, flit about everywhere.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 472 Black Witch. Savanna Blackbird.

3. slang (originally and chiefly Nautical). Now historical.

a. A black person who has been taken captive as a slave. Cf. blackbirding n.Recorded earliest in blackbird-catching n. at Compounds.Quot. 1794 refers to the ethnically mixed and very poor community of runaway slaves, Jamaican ex-servicemen, Lascars, etc., crowded into a small area on St Giles' High Street, London, during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black

jong1615

servant1643

New Negro1701

salt-water Negro1708

boy1796

blackbird1853

intelligent contraband1861

contraband1862

1794 C. B. Wadstrom Ess. Colonization I. 228 The blacks living in London are generally profligate, because..vitiated by slavery... In London..they sink into abject poverty, and soon become St. Giles's black-birds.]

1853 True Briton New Ser. 1 No. 18. 274/1 He had for many years been engaged on the African coast in the respectable and lucrative profession of ‘blackbird-catching’.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 104 Black-birds, a slang term on the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves.

1872 W. H. Thomes Slaver's Adventures Land & Sea iv. 54 I was within two days' sail of the coast of Cuba, with five hundred blackbirds on board, when an inquisitive Englishman gave chase.

1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 213/2 Blackbird, formerly an African captive on board a slaver.

1986 G. Wolff Providence vii. 59 Once the morose cargo had been secured aboard, some of the black folk would die (109 out of 167 on a single voyage: bye-bye blackbirds, bye-bye profits).

2001 D. C. Gould Times Brother Jonathan v. 150 The proclamation was made in November 1775, freeing all black indentured servants, black birds, slaves who were able and willing to bear arms for the king to join the British Army.

b. An indentured labourer recruited in the south Pacific to work on a sugar plantation.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > indentured, in American colonies

kid1724

blackbird1875

1875 G. S. Searle Narr. Voy. Brig ‘Carl’ 1871 7 It was made to appear subsequently..that Mount..also told Binstead that they were going to take a cruise round the islands ‘blackbird catching’.

1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 213/2 Blackbird,..now generally understood as referring to a Polynesian indentured labourer, who, if not by name a slave, is often one to all intents and purposes.

1900 R. B. Cunninghame Graham 13 Stories 204 He'd bin the round trip..whiles after the ‘blackbirds’ (slaves, ye ken, what we called free endentured labourers).

1933 Times 3 Aug. 12/4 In supervising the traffic in native labourers recruited in the islands for work in the Queensland sugarfields..a show of force was helpful in keeping the peace between the white traders and the ‘blackbirds’ they dealt in.

2007 J. Fraenkel & S. Firth From Election to Coup Fiji xviii. 244 Melanesian descendants of Solomon Island ‘blackbird indentured labourers’, Samoan and Tongan communities [etc.].

Compounds

blackbird-catching n. slang (now historical) taking into slavery or as indentured labour.

ΚΠ

1853Blackbird-catching [see sense 3a].

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Blackbird-catching,..slang for the slave-trade.

1902 A. Lang Disentanglers xi. 303 ‘He was never in the Labour trade.’ ‘Blackbird catching?.. No.’

1948 H. Wolhuter Memories Game-ranger 71 He presently settled down to what, in those days, was called ‘blackbird-catching’—recruiting natives for the mines without a licence.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	blackbird
释义	blackbirdn. Brit. /ˈblakbəːd/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbərd/ Forms: see black adj. and n. and bird n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., bird n. Etymology: < black adj. + bird n.With sense 3a compare earlier blackbirding n. With sense 3b compare earlier blackbirding n. and slightly later blackbirder n. 1. The surname Blackbird (1279 as William Blakebird ) probably shows beard n. rather than bird n. as second element; compare the variant spellings Brunstanus Blachebiert (1066), William Blacberd (1206), Thomas Blakeberd (1275), which all support this interpretation. 1. a. A common Eurasian thrush, Turdus merula, of which the male has black plumage and a yellow bill and is noted for its melodious song, and the female is dark brown. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus merula (blackbird) ouzeleOE blackbirdc1350 merula1398 merle1483 black-mack1519 blackie1841 c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 24* Osele, blacbrid. 1486 Bk. St. Albans D j a For the blacke bride and the thrushe. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blacke byrde or owsyl, turdus. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Litorne, a birde of the bignesse of a blacke bird called a wing thrushe. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. lxvii. 898 The strongest and stoutest birde that can be, is the blacke birde. 1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 19 At her call, Comes Blackbird, Linit, Alph, Thrush, Nightingal, Melodious warblers. 1745 T. Warton Inscript. Hermitage ii Within my limits lone and still The blackbird pipes in artless trill. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 92 The Blackbird..begins to sing early in the spring. 1851 Beck's Florist 19 I'd pull a lot of sparrows, or maybe some blackbirds and thrushes, and then cut 'em down the back, and fill their bodies full of bread. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 131 In glass cases are..a white blackbird, and a diver. 1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. xiii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 600 The weir murmuring, the blackbirds and the cuckoos calling. 1987 B. Duffy World as I found It (1990) 74 The windy green of Great Court was filled with what looked like a flock of fluttering blackbirds as students and dons winged by in their black gowns. 2008 J. Quinn Goodnight Ballivor xiv. 72 We spent hours of anticipation and delight in finding the nest of a thrush or blackbird. †b. figurative. A songster. Obsolete.In quot. a1640 referring to black slaves, so used punningly. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer by type of voice > [noun] > sweet singer nightingale?a1500 siren1592 blackbirda1640 bulbul1848 songbird1874 a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iv. iii. 93 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Cit. There's your money; I'll have 'em, if it be to sing in Cages. Mas. Give 'em hard Eggs, you never had such Black-birds. c. British regional. With distinguishing word. The ring ouzel, Turdus torquatus, which is closely related to the blackbird. Now rare.Michaelmas, moor, mountain, ring blackbird, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > turdus torquatus (ring-ouzel) ouzela1525 ring ouzel1673 heath-throstle1676 mountain ouzel1678 rock ouzel1678 amsela1705 tor ouzel1770 ring thrush1785 blackbird1802 Michaelmas blackbird1802 heath-thrush1804 ring blackbird1817 ringed thrush1817 moor blackbird1837 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Ouzel—Ring These birds appear in Portland in their spring and autumnal flights, and are there called Michaelmas Blackbirds. 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds II. 100 Turdus torquatus. The Ringed Thrush, or Ring Ouzel... Moor Blackbird. 1888 Monthly Chron. North-Country Lore & Legend Nov. 493/2 It [sc. the ring ouzel] is known as the rock ouzel, mountain blackbird, moor blackbird,..and ringed blackbird. 1971 Country Life 3 June 1351/1 Then there were mountain larks and mountain blackbirds (pipits and ousels). 2. a. Originally North American. Any of various grackles and other birds of the New World family Icteridae, esp. of the genus Agelaius, having strong pointed bills and harsh voices, and males that typically have black plumage that is iridescent or has patches of red or yellow. Usually with distinguishing word.American, crow, marsh, red-winged, rusty blackbird, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Icteridae > [noun] > miscellaneous types of blackbird1602 grackle1772 oropendola1860 yellowhead1868 thrush-blackbird1889 1602 J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 12 We saw in the country..Doves, Sea-pies, Blacke-birds with carnation wings. 1643 R. Williams Key Lang. Amer. xv. 89 Which mysticall Fowle follow the sowing of the Word..as these Black-birds follow the materiall seed. 1685 T. Budd Good Order established in Pennsylvania & New-Jersey 34 The Woods are furnished with store of Wild Fowl, as Turkeys, Pheasants, Heath-Cocks, Partridges, Pidgeons, Blackbirds, &c. ?1769 Catal. Cabinet of Birds 2 The Red-wing'd Blackbird, well known. 1811 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 37 Starlings..are known by various names in the different states of the union; such as the Swamp Blackbird, Marsh Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird. 1846 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (30th Congress, 1st Sess.) (1848) IV. No. 41. 436 [We saw] large flocks of the yellow headed black bird. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 286/1 Our own native blackbirds, the crow blackbird, the rusty grackle, the cow-bird and the red-shouldered starling are not songsters. 1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 54 The Red-winged Blackbird is one of the easiest birds to identify by his song. 1947 R. Bedichek Adventures with Texas Naturalist xviii. 236 They [sc. mockingbirds] do not supplement and support each other as a singing treeful of blackbirds, grackles, meadow larks, or other Icteridae do. 2003 Guardian 17 Feb. i. 20/2 Here, we finally saw the aptly-named Blue Mountain vireo, together with the rare Jamaican blackbird. †b. With distinguishing word. Any of various other birds with predominantly black plumage. Obsolete.pied, savannah, water blackbird, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > unspecified tidifec1385 tymor?a1400 holste14.. popard1411 popera1450 wercocka1475 tytyferc1565 caladrie1567 butwin1570 brandlet1576 pecteale1579 stockard1579 tanterueale1579 pyralis1580 twite1582 gnat-snapper1598 herodian1609 grindle1610 skirwingle1610 spawe1610 tydie1612 fillady1620 wake1623 gnat-gnapper1627 blackbird1678 ricebird1704 long tongue1731 angle-taster1744 stearing1769 weaver-oriole1782 weaver-bunting1783 sedge-wren1802 satin grackle1822 Audubon1837 nankeen bird1837 fife-bird1854 jug1881 upholsterer1890 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 194 The red-breasted Indian Blackbird, perchance the Jacapu of Marggrave. 1743 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds I. 19 The Chinese Starling or Black-Bird. 1748 M. Catesby California App. 103 The Razor-billed Black-bird of Jamaica. This Bird is somewhat less than our Jack-daw. ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. VII. 59 The pied blackbird, variegated with white and black. 1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 174 The only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird). 1876 J. Robinson George Linton xv. 159 Hosts of tiny rooibeks, grey canaries, blue-winged blackbirds, flit about everywhere. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 472 Black Witch. Savanna Blackbird. 3. slang (originally and chiefly Nautical). Now historical. a. A black person who has been taken captive as a slave. Cf. blackbirding n.Recorded earliest in blackbird-catching n. at Compounds.Quot. 1794 refers to the ethnically mixed and very poor community of runaway slaves, Jamaican ex-servicemen, Lascars, etc., crowded into a small area on St Giles' High Street, London, during the 18th and early 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > black jong1615 servant1643 New Negro1701 salt-water Negro1708 boy1796 blackbird1853 intelligent contraband1861 contraband1862 1794 C. B. Wadstrom Ess. Colonization I. 228 The blacks living in London are generally profligate, because..vitiated by slavery... In London..they sink into abject poverty, and soon become St. Giles's black-birds.] 1853 True Briton New Ser. 1 No. 18. 274/1 He had for many years been engaged on the African coast in the respectable and lucrative profession of ‘blackbird-catching’. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 104 Black-birds, a slang term on the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves. 1872 W. H. Thomes Slaver's Adventures Land & Sea iv. 54 I was within two days' sail of the coast of Cuba, with five hundred blackbirds on board, when an inquisitive Englishman gave chase. 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 213/2 Blackbird, formerly an African captive on board a slaver. 1986 G. Wolff Providence vii. 59 Once the morose cargo had been secured aboard, some of the black folk would die (109 out of 167 on a single voyage: bye-bye blackbirds, bye-bye profits). 2001 D. C. Gould Times Brother Jonathan v. 150 The proclamation was made in November 1775, freeing all black indentured servants, black birds, slaves who were able and willing to bear arms for the king to join the British Army. b. An indentured labourer recruited in the south Pacific to work on a sugar plantation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > indentured, in American colonies kid1724 blackbird1875 1875 G. S. Searle Narr. Voy. Brig ‘Carl’ 1871 7 It was made to appear subsequently..that Mount..also told Binstead that they were going to take a cruise round the islands ‘blackbird catching’. 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 213/2 Blackbird,..now generally understood as referring to a Polynesian indentured labourer, who, if not by name a slave, is often one to all intents and purposes. 1900 R. B. Cunninghame Graham 13 Stories 204 He'd bin the round trip..whiles after the ‘blackbirds’ (slaves, ye ken, what we called free endentured labourers). 1933 Times 3 Aug. 12/4 In supervising the traffic in native labourers recruited in the islands for work in the Queensland sugarfields..a show of force was helpful in keeping the peace between the white traders and the ‘blackbirds’ they dealt in. 2007 J. Fraenkel & S. Firth From Election to Coup Fiji xviii. 244 Melanesian descendants of Solomon Island ‘blackbird indentured labourers’, Samoan and Tongan communities [etc.]. Compounds blackbird-catching n. slang (now historical) taking into slavery or as indentured labour. ΚΠ 1853Blackbird-catching [see sense 3a]. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Blackbird-catching,..slang for the slave-trade. 1902 A. Lang Disentanglers xi. 303 ‘He was never in the Labour trade.’ ‘Blackbird catching?.. No.’ 1948 H. Wolhuter Memories Game-ranger 71 He presently settled down to what, in those days, was called ‘blackbird-catching’—recruiting natives for the mines without a licence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). blackbirdv. Brit. /ˈblakbəːd/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: blackbird n. Etymology: < blackbird n. (although the relevant sense is first attested later), after blackbirding n. †1. intransitive. To engage in the slave trade. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be a slave [verb (intransitive)] > enslave or use slave labour to bore (any one's) ears1641 blackbird1845 slave-drive1878 1845 N.Y. Herald 22 Aug. It is doubtful whether she will sail as swiftly as when she was black birding. 2. transitive. Chiefly in the south Pacific: to kidnap (a person) for work as an indentured labourer. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > kidnap or abduct [verb (transitive)] > into slavery spirit1657 panyar1681 blackbirda1889 a1889 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 125/1 But sometimes—we are glad to say in the past—iniquitously blackbirded or kidnapped, and practically sold into slavery. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) Prol. 4 He had really made it [sc. money] blackbirding natives from the Pacific Islands to the Queensland sugar plantations. 1984 Eng. World-wide 5 156 Kanakas—labourers who were born in the New Hebrides and had been blackbirded for work on Australian sugar cane plantations in the late 19th century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1350v.1845
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blackbirdn.

Compounds

blackbirdv.