aboman.

Brit.

/əˈbəʊmə/, U.S.

/əˈboʊmə/

Origin: A borrowing from Sranan. Perhaps also partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Sranan abóma; French aboma.

Etymology: < Sranan abóma ( < Fante aboma kind of large constricting snake), perhaps via French aboma (1765 in serpent aboma , or earlier; compare aboma-snake).

Now rare.

Any of various very large constricting snakes of tropical America (see note). Also †aboma-snake.Sometimes identified with the rainbow boa, Epicrates cenchria (e.g. in the Penny Cycl. (1836), cited by N.E.D.), or the boa constrictor, Boa constrictor, but the name has been applied to various species, and Stedman's description would better fit the green anaconda, Eunectes murinus.

ΚΠ

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 175 It is called..Boa in the British Encyclopœdia [sic], to which publication I refer the reader for a perfect account, and an excellent engraving, of this wonderful creature, which in the colony of Surinam is called Aboma.]

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 50 Still this creature [sc. the jaguar] is not a match for the aboma-snake, which, when it comes within its reach, has the power of crushing it to a jelly in but few moments.

1810 Crit. Rev. 20 175 The aboma-snake, which is the largest species in this country, is not venomous.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 37/1 Aboma, a large species of serpent, which inhabits the morasses and fens of South America.

1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds ii. 56 The Aboma..is one of the largest of the group, sometimes attaining dimensions quite gigantic.

1908 Washington Post 23 Feb. 4/4 The ringed boa, or aboma, was at one time worshiped as a god by the ancient Mexicans.

1936 M. J. Herskovits & F. S. Herskovits Suriname Folk-lore ii. 302 The Aboma swallowed her, then he pulled her out again, and she became handsomer than all other women.

2001 H. E. A. Boos Snakes Trinidad & Tobago 57 Wilkins (1854) tells of a sorcerer..who kept an ‘aboma’, or boa constrictor, 14 feet long as a companion and as guardian of his gloomy domicile.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	aboma
释义	aboman. Brit. /əˈbəʊmə/, U.S. /əˈboʊmə/ Origin: A borrowing from Sranan. Perhaps also partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Sranan abóma; French aboma. Etymology: < Sranan abóma ( < Fante aboma kind of large constricting snake), perhaps via French aboma (1765 in serpent aboma , or earlier; compare aboma-snake). Now rare. Any of various very large constricting snakes of tropical America (see note). Also †aboma-snake.Sometimes identified with the rainbow boa, Epicrates cenchria (e.g. in the Penny Cycl. (1836), cited by N.E.D.), or the boa constrictor, Boa constrictor, but the name has been applied to various species, and Stedman's description would better fit the green anaconda, Eunectes murinus. ΚΠ 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. vii. 175 It is called..Boa in the British Encyclopœdia [sic], to which publication I refer the reader for a perfect account, and an excellent engraving, of this wonderful creature, which in the colony of Surinam is called Aboma.] 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 50 Still this creature [sc. the jaguar] is not a match for the aboma-snake, which, when it comes within its reach, has the power of crushing it to a jelly in but few moments. 1810 Crit. Rev. 20 175 The aboma-snake, which is the largest species in this country, is not venomous. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 37/1 Aboma, a large species of serpent, which inhabits the morasses and fens of South America. 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds ii. 56 The Aboma..is one of the largest of the group, sometimes attaining dimensions quite gigantic. 1908 Washington Post 23 Feb. 4/4 The ringed boa, or aboma, was at one time worshiped as a god by the ancient Mexicans. 1936 M. J. Herskovits & F. S. Herskovits Suriname Folk-lore ii. 302 The Aboma swallowed her, then he pulled her out again, and she became handsomer than all other women. 2001 H. E. A. Boos Snakes Trinidad & Tobago 57 Wilkins (1854) tells of a sorcerer..who kept an ‘aboma’, or boa constrictor, 14 feet long as a companion and as guardian of his gloomy domicile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1796
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