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单词 blackbirding
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blackbirdingn.

Brit. /ˈblakbəːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbərdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blackbird n., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < blackbird n. (although this is apparently first attested later in the relevant sense) + -ing suffix1. Compare later blackbird v.
slang (originally and chiefly Nautical). Now historical.
Esp. in the south Pacific: the action or occupation of kidnapping islanders for the slave trade, or as indentured labourers.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [noun] > into slavery
panyarring1703
blackbirding1836
1836 Emancipator (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 130/3 One of the hands..was heard to say to a friend of his,..‘O, we've come black-birding again.’
1868 Allen's Indian Mail 19 Mar. 272/1 He declines to prophesy the fate of the expedition,..laughs at John Bull's extensive preparations for ‘blackbirding’.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 84 Blackbirding, slave-catching. Term most applied nowadays to the Polynesian coolie traffic.
1897 W. C. Morrow Ape, Idiot, & other People (1898) 314Blackbirding’ (which is kidnapping Gilbert Islanders and selling them to the coffee-planters of Central America).
1908 Daily Chron. 6 Nov. 4/6Blackbirding’..is not yet an entirely extinct industry [in the Pacific Islands].
1968 G. Daws Shoal of Time v. 181 The British government was casting an anxious eye at blackbirding in the Pacific.
1998 Guardian 22 July ii. 15/3 So we went slaving and blackbirding for staff up the Cannibal Island chain of the New Hebrides.

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General attributive.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > [adjective] > into slavery
blackbirding1860
1860 New Hampsh. Statesman 25 Feb. He had secured a vessel, and was getting a crew, for what he termed a ‘blackbirding’ expedition.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 2/2 Years ago blackbirding scoundrels may have hailed from Fiji.
1920 Smith's Weekly (Sydney) 18 Sept. 17/4 In the old blackbirding days..they played mean tricks on the ignorant islanders.
2004 Townsville (Austral.) Sun (Nexis) 30 June 8 The opportunity to tell the truth about the blackbirding stain on our rich and colourful heritage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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