tar-brushn.

Brit.

/ˈtɑːbrʌʃ/, U.S.

/ˈtɑrˌbrəʃ/

Forms: see tar n.¹ and brush n.²

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tar n.¹, brush n.²

Etymology: < tar n.¹ + brush n.²

a. A brush used for smearing anything with tar. knight of the tar-brush, allusively applied to a sailor: cf. tar n.¹ 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun]

shipmanc900

seamanOE

buscarlOE

shipperc1100

ship-gumec1275

marinerc1300

skipper1390

marinela1400

waterman1421

maryneller1470

seafarer1513

sea-fardingera1550

navigator1574

marinec1575

sailer1585

Triton1589

Neptunist1593

canvas-climber1609

sea-crab1609

tar-lubber1610

Neptunian1620

salt-rover1620

sailora1642

tarpaulin1647

otter1650

water dog1652

tarpauliana1656

Jack1659

tar1676

sea-animal1707

Jack tar1709

sailor-man1761

tarry-breeks1786

hearty1790

ocean-farera1806

tarry-jacket1822

Jacky1826

nautical1831

salt water1839

matelotc1847

knight of the tar-brush1866

main-yard man1867

gobby1883

tarry-John1888

blue jersey1889

lobscouser1889

flat-foot1897

handyman1899

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 135 Tarr Brushes—2.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 169 Do any of you knights of the tar brush know whether we are going to be drowned in Christian waters?

b. figurative, esp. in such depreciative and offensive phrases as a dash or touch of the tar-brush, applied to someone of mixed black (or Indian, etc.) and white origin, as shown in the colour of the skin. (In quot. 1796 applied to a black person.) In quot. 1895 touched with the same tar-brush = ‘tarred with the same brush’: see tar v.¹ c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > race or blood

tar-brush1796

niggerism1844

Negroness1937

Negritude1949

Negrohood1962

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

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black or Indian

tar-brush1859

tar1897

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Blue-skin Any... one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush.

1835–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 179 I great opinion of you, Pompey; I make a man of you, you dam old tar brush.

1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 50 The mother must have been very fair, if she were a native, the boy is so very slightly touched with the tar-brush.

1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vii. 233 Brunette! I should rather think she is! There's a strong touch of the tar-brush in that quarter.

1895 Month Aug. 547 On this occasion all alike were touched with the same tar-brush.

1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle viii. 189 Those snuff-and-butter coloured ladies..ignore their own lick of the tar-brush.

1928 J. Buchan Runagates Club i. 18 The Du Preez family had lived..close up to the Kaffir borders, and somewhere had got a dash of the tar-brush.

1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now vii. iii. 340 If he hadn't been an Irishman you'd think he had a touch of the tar-brush himself.

1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xix. 163 She was beautiful... High yellow. Some places they would have said she had just a touch of the tar-brush.

Derivatives

ˈtar-brusher n. one who uses a tar-brush; figurative one who ‘blackens’ a reputation, a defamer.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > one who sullies or stains

blottera1631

stainer1647

blurrer1681

tar-brusher1884

smircher1888

smearer1955

smear merchant1963

smear-monger1967

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders

missayer1340

slandererc1340

jurorc1380

third tonguea1382

defamerc1425

malignerc1425

disclanderer1447

praterc1500

evil-sayer1530

ill sayera1533

infamera1533

belier1541

sycophant1548

calumniatorc1550

disgracer1570

infamator1571

depraver1584

calumnier1586

libeller1589

infamizer1593

maldisant1598

oblocutor1603

traducer1603

villainizer1605

vilifier1611

calumner1614

scandallerc1620

scandalizer1632

blackmouth1642

deflowerer1645

famer1646

defamator1658

reflector1681

reflecter1686

asperser1702

bedirtera1742

libellist1794

mud-flinger1839

denigrator1875

mud-slinger1876

tar-brusher1884

libellant-

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 June 5/1 Mr. Brewer was neither a whitewasher nor a tar-brusher: he had very few fads.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tar-brush
释义	tar-brushn. Brit. /ˈtɑːbrʌʃ/, U.S. /ˈtɑrˌbrəʃ/ Forms: see tar n.¹ and brush n.² Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tar n.¹, brush n.² Etymology: < tar n.¹ + brush n.² a. A brush used for smearing anything with tar. knight of the tar-brush, allusively applied to a sailor: cf. tar n.¹ 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] shipmanc900 seamanOE buscarlOE shipperc1100 ship-gumec1275 marinerc1300 skipper1390 marinela1400 waterman1421 maryneller1470 seafarer1513 sea-fardingera1550 navigator1574 marinec1575 sailer1585 Triton1589 Neptunist1593 canvas-climber1609 sea-crab1609 tar-lubber1610 Neptunian1620 salt-rover1620 sailora1642 tarpaulin1647 otter1650 water dog1652 tarpauliana1656 Jack1659 tar1676 sea-animal1707 Jack tar1709 sailor-man1761 tarry-breeks1786 hearty1790 ocean-farera1806 tarry-jacket1822 Jacky1826 nautical1831 salt water1839 matelotc1847 knight of the tar-brush1866 main-yard man1867 gobby1883 tarry-John1888 blue jersey1889 lobscouser1889 flat-foot1897 handyman1899 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 135 Tarr Brushes—2. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 169 Do any of you knights of the tar brush know whether we are going to be drowned in Christian waters? b. figurative, esp. in such depreciative and offensive phrases as a dash or touch of the tar-brush, applied to someone of mixed black (or Indian, etc.) and white origin, as shown in the colour of the skin. (In quot. 1796 applied to a black person.) In quot. 1895 touched with the same tar-brush = ‘tarred with the same brush’: see tar v.¹ c. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > race or blood tar-brush1796 niggerism1844 Negroness1937 Negritude1949 Negrohood1962 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 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > white and black or Indian tar-brush1859 tar1897 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Blue-skin Any... one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush. 1835–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 179 I great opinion of you, Pompey; I make a man of you, you dam old tar brush. 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 50 The mother must have been very fair, if she were a native, the boy is so very slightly touched with the tar-brush. 1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah vii. 233 Brunette! I should rather think she is! There's a strong touch of the tar-brush in that quarter. 1895 Month Aug. 547 On this occasion all alike were touched with the same tar-brush. 1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle viii. 189 Those snuff-and-butter coloured ladies..ignore their own lick of the tar-brush. 1928 J. Buchan Runagates Club i. 18 The Du Preez family had lived..close up to the Kaffir borders, and somewhere had got a dash of the tar-brush. 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now vii. iii. 340 If he hadn't been an Irishman you'd think he had a touch of the tar-brush himself. 1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xix. 163 She was beautiful... High yellow. Some places they would have said she had just a touch of the tar-brush. Derivatives ˈtar-brusher n. one who uses a tar-brush; figurative one who ‘blackens’ a reputation, a defamer. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > one who sullies or stains blottera1631 stainer1647 blurrer1681 tar-brusher1884 smircher1888 smearer1955 smear merchant1963 smear-monger1967 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders missayer1340 slandererc1340 jurorc1380 third tonguea1382 defamerc1425 malignerc1425 disclanderer1447 praterc1500 evil-sayer1530 ill sayera1533 infamera1533 belier1541 sycophant1548 calumniatorc1550 disgracer1570 infamator1571 depraver1584 calumnier1586 libeller1589 infamizer1593 maldisant1598 oblocutor1603 traducer1603 villainizer1605 vilifier1611 calumner1614 scandallerc1620 scandalizer1632 blackmouth1642 deflowerer1645 famer1646 defamator1658 reflector1681 reflecter1686 asperser1702 bedirtera1742 libellist1794 mud-flinger1839 denigrator1875 mud-slinger1876 tar-brusher1884 libellant- 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 June 5/1 Mr. Brewer was neither a whitewasher nor a tar-brusher: he had very few fads. 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