black-bookv.
/ˌblakˈbʊk/, U.S. /ˈblækˈbʊk/ transitive. To censure; to enter (a person's name) in a black book (black book n. 2a).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] > censure or condemn > by entering in list or book
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1826 W. Bailey Rec. Patriotism & Love of Country 134 I am proud to say, that I was one of the original subscribers to that indefatigable paper in the cause of Freedom, and had the honour to be black-booked for it.
1893 Hampshire Advertiser 5 July 4/5 She also denied having brought him there so that he should be ‘black-booked’ by the American Company for not going in the New York.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xvi. 64 I see Mr. Gordon has black-booked you for ‘gross impertinence’.
1969 T. H. Henderson Factors assoc. with Job Performance Agric. Extension Workers Jamaica (Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison) iii. 92 Extension workers should be encouraged to do some farming of their own rather than be officially ‘black booked’ and be regarded as marked men for so doing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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