black boyn.

Brit.

/ˌblak ˈbɔɪ/, U.S.

/ˌblæk ˈbɔɪ/

Forms: see black adj. and n. and boy n.¹ and int.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., boy n.¹

Etymology: < black adj. + boy n.¹ In sense 3 perhaps with reference to the use of a picture of a dark-skinned boy as a shop sign by tobacconists (attested from at least the late 19th cent.), in allusion to the association of black slaves with tobacco cultivation.

a. A dark-skinned boy or youth.

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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

1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 31 He se how a lytel blacke boy toke that monke by the lappe and led hym out of the quyer..how the fende in lykenes of a lytel blake boy drew fourth the monke.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xcix^v Thys deuyll hadde a nombre of yonge deuils folowing hym, lyke pratye blacke boyes wyth shauen crownes.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 Jan. (1974) VIII. 33 Her little black boy came by him.

1705 Last Speeches Capt. T. Green 17 He..was at abundance of Pains in instructing two young black Boys that belong'd to the Ship.

1777 J. Beekman Let. 11 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1285 He told me that you could get a clever white Boy for me who would be bound to Serve untill he was of age... If no white boy can be got, then I should be glad to buy a clever black Boy.

1827 Afr. Observer May 44/1 A black boy, James Bayard, (a sweep),..and Little Jack, a small black boy, (a sweep), were brought together to the garret,..and then a black, Henry, a young man grown.

1900 I. K. Morris Memorial Hist. Staten Island II. iv. 44 Other indentures..were those of..a black boy named Prince, aged four years, to Nicholas Crocheron, 1805; [etc.].

1953 A. Paton Too Late Phalarope 23 The small black boys, having learned it from the soldiers,..saluted him.

2001 J. E. Davis in R. Majors Educating our Black Children xii. 169 Black boys are..heroes..of hip-hop culture and athleticism,..while simultaneously experiencing disproportionate levels of punishment and academic marginality.

†b. A black man, esp. a black manservant. Cf. boy n.¹ 1. Obsolete.

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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > black

black boy1594

boy1625

Cape boy1892

Stepin Fetchit1940

1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 45 The Ethiopians sent..a bushell of gold from the myne, two hundred fagots of Ebony, fiue hundred blacke boies, and xxij. Elephants.

1635 Relation of Maryland v. 28 The Children live with their Parents; the Boyes untill they come to the full growth of men..then they are put into the number of Bow-men, and are called Black-boyes.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 124 We had a black boy my Father brought from Porta Nova to attend upon him.

1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 64 Creague saved himself in his Boat, with the Help of his black Boy.

1829 B. Hall Trav. N. Amer. I. 122 His first assistant was a sharp-faced, well-tanned, old woman in spectacles; next came a black boy.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 141 The ‘old Ab’ was manned by one black boy, sixty years old.

c. Chiefly in form blackboy. An Australian Aboriginal man; spec. an Aboriginal guide accompanying explorers (now historical). Now offensive and rare.

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1810 Sydney Gaz. 1 Dec. My servant, Nussee, a black boy, has absconded from my Employ.

1867 F. J. Byerley Narr. Overland Exped. N. Queensland p. xi Native blacks, or as they are commonly called in the colonies, Black-boys.

1893 E. Favenc Last of Six 103 I will lend you a blackboy who knows the country well and will see you back here safely.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 147 The full, fathomless, shining eyes of an Australian black-boy.

1959 M. Durack Kings in Grass Castles xxvii. 271 Jock McPhee..paid for his stores with a nugget his blackboy had picked up in the bed of the Mary River.

1993 S. Firth & R. Darlington in J. A. Mangan Imperial Curriculum vi. 88 The use of patronizing or derogatory terms for people, for example, referring to Aborigines as ‘blackboys’ or ‘native boys’.

2. An Australian grass tree of the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), having a thick dark trunk and long grass-like leaves (also black boy tree); esp. Xanthorrhoea preissii of south-western areas. Also: a resin obtained from these plants.The name is now often considered offensive.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > grass-trees

grass tree1792

black boy1833

neinei1838

grass tree1843

xanthorrhœa1868

1833 in J. Cross Jrnls. Exped. West. Austral. 111 The black boys, growing in the country we had hitherto passed over, were the underground ones, the rushes of which are not brittle.

1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 658 A red resin, probably from X. arborea.., has been recently imported under the name of black-boy gum.

1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. 380 These trees, called Blackboys by the colonists, from the resemblance they bear, in the distance, to natives.

1898 Pop. Sci. News Aug. 178/1 It is plastered over with a kind of sticky wax called ‘blackboy’, which when dry imparts considerable rigidity to the implement.

1912 H. E. Potts Chem. Rubber Industry ii. 45 Wallace has a patent for the production of isoprene by the dry distillation of the bark of the black-boy tree of Australia.

1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 59 The ‘blackboys’ several times taller than a man with twisted coal-black stems crowned by massive raffia-like tufts in green and white.

2004 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Weekender) 16 Tree ferns planted among the boulders give the dam's structure and soften the landscape where bridges and stone features are highlighted by grass trees (Blackboys).

3. More fully black boy tobacco: a kind of black tobacco.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > other types of tobacco

craccus1617

mavis1641

shoot-tobacco1666

funk1677

black tobacco1698

kite's-foot1788

dark leaf1829

bird's eye1834

bright leaf1834

honeydew tobacco1835

seed leaf1837

long-tails1839

honeydew1843

caporal1850

dogleg tobacco1856

dogleg1863

Boer1881

burley1881

black boy1898

snus1916

1898 Daily News 8 Oct. 3/3 She had been addicted to the use of the weed, in the specific shape of ‘black boy’, for over forty years.

1908 Daily Chron. 10 Apr. 4/7 A black boy tobacco much in favour with mariners.

1921 R. T. Hopkins Kipling's Sussex viii. 141 His eye began to water for he could not abide my Black Boy tobacco.

1946 ‘A. Spence' Myst. Red Gum 212 Kerosene tins seemed to be used for everything. One held a few books,..another some blackboy, and another was full of water.

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

单词	black boy
释义	black boyn. Brit. /ˌblak ˈbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˌblæk ˈbɔɪ/ Forms: see black adj. and n. and boy n.¹ and int. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., boy n.¹ Etymology: < black adj. + boy n.¹ In sense 3 perhaps with reference to the use of a picture of a dark-skinned boy as a shop sign by tobacconists (attested from at least the late 19th cent.), in allusion to the association of black slaves with tobacco cultivation. 1. a. A dark-skinned boy or youth. 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 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 31 He se how a lytel blacke boy toke that monke by the lappe and led hym out of the quyer..how the fende in lykenes of a lytel blake boy drew fourth the monke. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xcix^v Thys deuyll hadde a nombre of yonge deuils folowing hym, lyke pratye blacke boyes wyth shauen crownes. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 Jan. (1974) VIII. 33 Her little black boy came by him. 1705 Last Speeches Capt. T. Green 17 He..was at abundance of Pains in instructing two young black Boys that belong'd to the Ship. 1777 J. Beekman Let. 11 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1285 He told me that you could get a clever white Boy for me who would be bound to Serve untill he was of age... If no white boy can be got, then I should be glad to buy a clever black Boy. 1827 Afr. Observer May 44/1 A black boy, James Bayard, (a sweep),..and Little Jack, a small black boy, (a sweep), were brought together to the garret,..and then a black, Henry, a young man grown. 1900 I. K. Morris Memorial Hist. Staten Island II. iv. 44 Other indentures..were those of..a black boy named Prince, aged four years, to Nicholas Crocheron, 1805; [etc.]. 1953 A. Paton Too Late Phalarope 23 The small black boys, having learned it from the soldiers,..saluted him. 2001 J. E. Davis in R. Majors Educating our Black Children xii. 169 Black boys are..heroes..of hip-hop culture and athleticism,..while simultaneously experiencing disproportionate levels of punishment and academic marginality. †b. A black man, esp. a black manservant. Cf. boy n.¹ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > black black boy1594 boy1625 Cape boy1892 Stepin Fetchit1940 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 45 The Ethiopians sent..a bushell of gold from the myne, two hundred fagots of Ebony, fiue hundred blacke boies, and xxij. Elephants. 1635 Relation of Maryland v. 28 The Children live with their Parents; the Boyes untill they come to the full growth of men..then they are put into the number of Bow-men, and are called Black-boyes. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 124 We had a black boy my Father brought from Porta Nova to attend upon him. 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 64 Creague saved himself in his Boat, with the Help of his black Boy. 1829 B. Hall Trav. N. Amer. I. 122 His first assistant was a sharp-faced, well-tanned, old woman in spectacles; next came a black boy. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 141 The ‘old Ab’ was manned by one black boy, sixty years old. c. Chiefly in form blackboy. An Australian Aboriginal man; spec. an Aboriginal guide accompanying explorers (now historical). Now offensive and rare. ΚΠ 1810 Sydney Gaz. 1 Dec. My servant, Nussee, a black boy, has absconded from my Employ. 1867 F. J. Byerley Narr. Overland Exped. N. Queensland p. xi Native blacks, or as they are commonly called in the colonies, Black-boys. 1893 E. Favenc Last of Six 103 I will lend you a blackboy who knows the country well and will see you back here safely. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 147 The full, fathomless, shining eyes of an Australian black-boy. 1959 M. Durack Kings in Grass Castles xxvii. 271 Jock McPhee..paid for his stores with a nugget his blackboy had picked up in the bed of the Mary River. 1993 S. Firth & R. Darlington in J. A. Mangan Imperial Curriculum vi. 88 The use of patronizing or derogatory terms for people, for example, referring to Aborigines as ‘blackboys’ or ‘native boys’. 2. An Australian grass tree of the genus Xanthorrhoea (family Xanthorrhoeaceae), having a thick dark trunk and long grass-like leaves (also black boy tree); esp. Xanthorrhoea preissii of south-western areas. Also: a resin obtained from these plants.The name is now often considered offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > grass-trees grass tree1792 black boy1833 neinei1838 grass tree1843 xanthorrhœa1868 1833 in J. Cross Jrnls. Exped. West. Austral. 111 The black boys, growing in the country we had hitherto passed over, were the underground ones, the rushes of which are not brittle. 1840 J. Pereira Elements Materia Medica ii. 658 A red resin, probably from X. arborea.., has been recently imported under the name of black-boy gum. 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. 380 These trees, called Blackboys by the colonists, from the resemblance they bear, in the distance, to natives. 1898 Pop. Sci. News Aug. 178/1 It is plastered over with a kind of sticky wax called ‘blackboy’, which when dry imparts considerable rigidity to the implement. 1912 H. E. Potts Chem. Rubber Industry ii. 45 Wallace has a patent for the production of isoprene by the dry distillation of the bark of the black-boy tree of Australia. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 59 The ‘blackboys’ several times taller than a man with twisted coal-black stems crowned by massive raffia-like tufts in green and white. 2004 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Weekender) 16 Tree ferns planted among the boulders give the dam's structure and soften the landscape where bridges and stone features are highlighted by grass trees (Blackboys). 3. More fully black boy tobacco: a kind of black tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > other types of tobacco craccus1617 mavis1641 shoot-tobacco1666 funk1677 black tobacco1698 kite's-foot1788 dark leaf1829 bird's eye1834 bright leaf1834 honeydew tobacco1835 seed leaf1837 long-tails1839 honeydew1843 caporal1850 dogleg tobacco1856 dogleg1863 Boer1881 burley1881 black boy1898 snus1916 1898 Daily News 8 Oct. 3/3 She had been addicted to the use of the weed, in the specific shape of ‘black boy’, for over forty years. 1908 Daily Chron. 10 Apr. 4/7 A black boy tobacco much in favour with mariners. 1921 R. T. Hopkins Kipling's Sussex viii. 141 His eye began to water for he could not abide my Black Boy tobacco. 1946 ‘A. Spence' Myst. Red Gum 212 Kerosene tins seemed to be used for everything. One held a few books,..another some blackboy, and another was full of water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1530
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