单词 | soul brother |
释义 | soul brothern. 1. A man or boy regarded as a spiritual brother; one whose thoughts, feelings, and beliefs closely match one's own; a (male) kindred spirit. ΚΠ ?1740 E. Gibson Observ. Methodists 19/1 Our glorious Soul-Brother..had it reveal'd to him in Spirit..that some such as he should be sent of God into these Parts. 1857 ‘M. Harland’ Moss-side ii. 37 You may have a soul-brother, in whose joys you rejoice, in whose woes you are afflicted. 1874 Repository 52 368 My soul-brother was as keenly alive to these spiritual relations of art as myself. 1909 J. C. Wheeler There she Blows! 66 The guileless savage..declaring the chosen one to be the friend of his heart, and soul-brother to all eternity. 1978 Listener 20 July 90/1 Baudelaire recognised in Poe a soul brother and mirror image. 2008 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) July 126/1 Putin would prove to be an unfaithful soul brother [to Bush], betraying the president's trust. 2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). In African-American usage: a black man or boy, esp. as regarded by other black people. Cf. soul sister n. 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 1957 Q. Jones (title of song) Soul brothers. 1959 Jazz Fall 291 It's one of those type LPs. I had all ‘soul brothers’. 1968 E. Cleaver in Ramparts 15 June 21 ‘Work out soul brother!’ I was shouting to myself. 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key xiv. 144 I've got some soul brothers hustling baggage at LAX. 1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses i. iii. 62 A team of..subway spray-painters and soul-brothers who called themselves the Alien Nation. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand cii. 553 He don't take no shit from the Reds in Vietnam, but he sucks up to that King like he's his long lost soul brother. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1740 |
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