boycottn.

Brit.

/ˈbɔɪkɒt/, U.S.

/ˈbɔɪˌkɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: boycott v.

Etymology: < boycott v.

Withdrawal from social or commercial interaction or cooperation with a group, nation, person, etc., intended as a protest or punishment. Now usually as a count noun: an instance of this; (also) a refusal to buy certain goods or participate in a particular event, as a form of protest or punishment.Originally in the context of land disputes in Ireland: see boycott v. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun]

discommunion1590

ostracism1602

disfellowship1608

expurgation1615

elimination1623

estrangement1660

social exclusion1831

fugitation1837

leperhood1875

ostracization1875

boycott1880

boycotting1880

boycottism1880

freeze-out1883

freezing out1891

purge1893

1880 Times 9 Dec. 10/2 They also do not feel warranted in regarding the threat of ‘Boycott’ as one which comes within the Act.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Nov. 3/2 Those who have continued to hire Chinese labour and patronize the same since the Boycott.

1919 G. B. Shaw Peace Conf. Hints vi. 84 Such widely advocated and little thought-out ‘sanctions’ as the outlawry and economic boycott of a recalcitrant nation.

1941 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 35 495 Organized social compulsion imposed both private and governmental boycott on non-complying employers.

1960 K. Rexroth in Nation 2 July 6/1 The Montgomery bus boycott..won where Negro Zealotism, as well as Uncle Tomism, had always failed.

1980 Washington Post 15 Jan. a12/3 A boycott or moving of the games would be costly to the Soviets.

2002 Nat. Home Nov.–Dec. 74 (caption) A widespread boycott of Chilean sea bass is drawing attention to the overfishing of that species in some areas.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

boycottv.

Brit.

/ˈbɔɪkɒt/, U.S.

/ˈbɔɪˌkɑt/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Boycott.

Etymology: < the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), a land agent in Ireland, who was a prominent early recipient of such treatment (with the encouragement of the Irish Land League) in the autumn of 1880. See, for example:1880 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 25 Sept. 6/8 The multitude..rushed to Loughmask House, the residence of Captain Boycott, the agent on the estate, and the party against whom the popular ire was chiefly directed, and in a very short time every labourer and servant employed on or around the place was driven off and cautioned not to work there again.The word was rapidly adopted in many other European languages, e.g. French boycotter (1880), German boycottieren (1893; now boykottieren), Dutch boycotten (1904), Russian bojkotirovat' (1891), etc.

1. transitive. Of tenants in Ireland: to isolate and ostracize (a landlord or land agent, or anyone not participating in such action) socially and commercially, by withholding labour, the supply of food, custom, etc., in order to protest at the eviction of tenants, secure a reduction in rents, etc. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)]

seclude1498

refrain1547

ostracize1649

proscribe1680

to send (a person) to Coventry1765

taboo1791

blackball1821

blackbean1829

to freeze out1861

unworld1868

exostracize1872

boycott1880

1880 Glasgow Herald 1 Nov. 5/5 He [sc. Mr Savelle] advised the people to ‘Boycott’ any man who betrayed them by taking such land.

1880 Birmingham Daily Post 13 Nov. 5/6 Mr. Patrick Fergus, merchant, Ballinrobe, has been ‘Boycotted’ to use the local term.

1889 Times 28 June 8/1 It..cannot be disputed that alike in regard of outrages, of persons boycotted, of evictions, and of rents unpaid there has been a decrease which it is no exaggeration to call extraordinary.

1914 M. A. Ward Delia Blanchflower viii. 139 You know in the Land League days in Ireland they used to hold meetings to denounce a landlord—for evictions—and that landlord went afterwards in fear—scorned—and cursed—and boycotted.

2005 R. Douglas Liberals iv. 48 The Land League recommended that people who acted in violation of Land League precepts should be ‘boycotted’.

2. transitive. gen. To withdraw from commercial or social interaction with (a group, nation, person, etc.) as a protest or punishment; to refuse to handle or buy (goods), or refuse to participate in (an event, meeting, etc.), as a protest. Also figurative.

ΚΠ

1880 Illustr. London News 18 Dec. 587/1 To ‘Boycott’ has already become a verb active, signifying to ‘ratten’, to intimidate, to ‘send to Coventry’, and to ‘taboo’.

1881 Q. Rev. 117 The lineal ancestors of the Land League ‘boycotted’ the poet.

1881 Spectator 22 Jan. 119 Dame Nature arose..She ‘Boycotted’ London from Kew to Mile End.

1882 L. Stephen Swift vii. 157 Briefly, the half-pence were to be ‘Boycotted’.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 2/1 The local Labour Party is inclined to boycott preference voting.

1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism I. 218 Boycotting the Churches as mere contrivances for doping the workers into submission to Capitalism.

1966 H. Collins & K. Mitchell tr. J. Braunthal Hist. Internat. xvi. 197 The Guesdists, at loggerheads with the Possibilists from the beginning, boycotted the congresses called by their rivals.

1991 J. DeMont Citizens Irving (1992) vii.127 South Africa, Israel and other panic-stricken countries that had been boycotted by the Arabs scrambled to increase their oil stocks.

2006 Decanter June 23/1 Should the plight of the eagle move us to boycott screwcapped wines?

Derivatives

ˈboyˌcotted adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [adjective]

ostracized1849

boycotted1880

1880 Times 9 Dec. 10/2 A butcher who was charged with buying the sheep of a ‘Boycotted’ farmer.

1933 C. F. Remer Study Chinese Boycotts iii. 28 The injury inflicted upon the boycotted country—which may be great—is almost of necessity temporary.

1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 166/3 Grandstanding gestures like sending his athletes to the boycotted Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

ˌboycoˈttee n. a person, nation, etc., who is boycotted.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one who is excluded

boycottee1880

1880 Daily News 25 Dec. 6/3 So long as a railway station is near him, the ‘Boycottee’, if he have only two or three servants to stand firm, can practically bring the Boycotters to their wits' end.

1924 C. Warren Supreme Court & Sovereign States iv. 90 The employment of..an economic boycott might injure the boycotter nation and its citizens more than it did the boycottee.

2006 Guardian 27 Sept. i. 5/1 I don't shop at Tesco's, but that doesn't mean I boycott it. The boycottee has to have done something specific to provoke you into retaliatory action.

ˈboyˌcotter n.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one who excludes

ostracizer1876

boycotter1880

1880 Graphic 27 Nov. 531/3 This seems to frighten the Boycotters.

1928 Observer 22 Jan. 15/3 If the boycotters could carry out their intentions there would be a complete cessation of all work and trade when the Commission arrives.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Jan. i. 6/6 Nearly half the assembly boycotted the vote on Thursday. The boycotters were mainly from the ethnic minorities of northern Afghanistan.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boycott
释义	boycottn. Brit. /ˈbɔɪkɒt/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪˌkɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: boycott v. Etymology: < boycott v. Withdrawal from social or commercial interaction or cooperation with a group, nation, person, etc., intended as a protest or punishment. Now usually as a count noun: an instance of this; (also) a refusal to buy certain goods or participate in a particular event, as a form of protest or punishment.Originally in the context of land disputes in Ireland: see boycott v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] discommunion1590 ostracism1602 disfellowship1608 expurgation1615 elimination1623 estrangement1660 social exclusion1831 fugitation1837 leperhood1875 ostracization1875 boycott1880 boycotting1880 boycottism1880 freeze-out1883 freezing out1891 purge1893 1880 Times 9 Dec. 10/2 They also do not feel warranted in regarding the threat of ‘Boycott’ as one which comes within the Act. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Nov. 3/2 Those who have continued to hire Chinese labour and patronize the same since the Boycott. 1919 G. B. Shaw Peace Conf. Hints vi. 84 Such widely advocated and little thought-out ‘sanctions’ as the outlawry and economic boycott of a recalcitrant nation. 1941 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 35 495 Organized social compulsion imposed both private and governmental boycott on non-complying employers. 1960 K. Rexroth in Nation 2 July 6/1 The Montgomery bus boycott..won where Negro Zealotism, as well as Uncle Tomism, had always failed. 1980 Washington Post 15 Jan. a12/3 A boycott or moving of the games would be costly to the Soviets. 2002 Nat. Home Nov.–Dec. 74 (caption) A widespread boycott of Chilean sea bass is drawing attention to the overfishing of that species in some areas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boycottv. Brit. /ˈbɔɪkɒt/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪˌkɑt/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Boycott. Etymology: < the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), a land agent in Ireland, who was a prominent early recipient of such treatment (with the encouragement of the Irish Land League) in the autumn of 1880. See, for example:1880 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 25 Sept. 6/8 The multitude..rushed to Loughmask House, the residence of Captain Boycott, the agent on the estate, and the party against whom the popular ire was chiefly directed, and in a very short time every labourer and servant employed on or around the place was driven off and cautioned not to work there again.The word was rapidly adopted in many other European languages, e.g. French boycotter (1880), German boycottieren (1893; now boykottieren), Dutch boycotten (1904), Russian bojkotirovat' (1891), etc. 1. transitive. Of tenants in Ireland: to isolate and ostracize (a landlord or land agent, or anyone not participating in such action) socially and commercially, by withholding labour, the supply of food, custom, etc., in order to protest at the eviction of tenants, secure a reduction in rents, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] seclude1498 refrain1547 ostracize1649 proscribe1680 to send (a person) to Coventry1765 taboo1791 blackball1821 blackbean1829 to freeze out1861 unworld1868 exostracize1872 boycott1880 1880 Glasgow Herald 1 Nov. 5/5 He [sc. Mr Savelle] advised the people to ‘Boycott’ any man who betrayed them by taking such land. 1880 Birmingham Daily Post 13 Nov. 5/6 Mr. Patrick Fergus, merchant, Ballinrobe, has been ‘Boycotted’ to use the local term. 1889 Times 28 June 8/1 It..cannot be disputed that alike in regard of outrages, of persons boycotted, of evictions, and of rents unpaid there has been a decrease which it is no exaggeration to call extraordinary. 1914 M. A. Ward Delia Blanchflower viii. 139 You know in the Land League days in Ireland they used to hold meetings to denounce a landlord—for evictions—and that landlord went afterwards in fear—scorned—and cursed—and boycotted. 2005 R. Douglas Liberals iv. 48 The Land League recommended that people who acted in violation of Land League precepts should be ‘boycotted’. 2. transitive. gen. To withdraw from commercial or social interaction with (a group, nation, person, etc.) as a protest or punishment; to refuse to handle or buy (goods), or refuse to participate in (an event, meeting, etc.), as a protest. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1880 Illustr. London News 18 Dec. 587/1 To ‘Boycott’ has already become a verb active, signifying to ‘ratten’, to intimidate, to ‘send to Coventry’, and to ‘taboo’. 1881 Q. Rev. 117 The lineal ancestors of the Land League ‘boycotted’ the poet. 1881 Spectator 22 Jan. 119 Dame Nature arose..She ‘Boycotted’ London from Kew to Mile End. 1882 L. Stephen Swift vii. 157 Briefly, the half-pence were to be ‘Boycotted’. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 20 Aug. 2/1 The local Labour Party is inclined to boycott preference voting. 1928 G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism I. 218 Boycotting the Churches as mere contrivances for doping the workers into submission to Capitalism. 1966 H. Collins & K. Mitchell tr. J. Braunthal Hist. Internat. xvi. 197 The Guesdists, at loggerheads with the Possibilists from the beginning, boycotted the congresses called by their rivals. 1991 J. DeMont Citizens Irving (1992) vii.127 South Africa, Israel and other panic-stricken countries that had been boycotted by the Arabs scrambled to increase their oil stocks. 2006 Decanter June 23/1 Should the plight of the eagle move us to boycott screwcapped wines? Derivatives ˈboyˌcotted adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [adjective] ostracized1849 boycotted1880 1880 Times 9 Dec. 10/2 A butcher who was charged with buying the sheep of a ‘Boycotted’ farmer. 1933 C. F. Remer Study Chinese Boycotts iii. 28 The injury inflicted upon the boycotted country—which may be great—is almost of necessity temporary. 1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 166/3 Grandstanding gestures like sending his athletes to the boycotted Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984. ˌboycoˈttee n. a person, nation, etc., who is boycotted. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one who is excluded boycottee1880 1880 Daily News 25 Dec. 6/3 So long as a railway station is near him, the ‘Boycottee’, if he have only two or three servants to stand firm, can practically bring the Boycotters to their wits' end. 1924 C. Warren Supreme Court & Sovereign States iv. 90 The employment of..an economic boycott might injure the boycotter nation and its citizens more than it did the boycottee. 2006 Guardian 27 Sept. i. 5/1 I don't shop at Tesco's, but that doesn't mean I boycott it. The boycottee has to have done something specific to provoke you into retaliatory action. ˈboyˌcotter n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one who excludes ostracizer1876 boycotter1880 1880 Graphic 27 Nov. 531/3 This seems to frighten the Boycotters. 1928 Observer 22 Jan. 15/3 If the boycotters could carry out their intentions there would be a complete cessation of all work and trade when the Commission arrives. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Jan. i. 6/6 Nearly half the assembly boycotted the vote on Thursday. The boycotters were mainly from the ethnic minorities of northern Afghanistan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1880v.1880
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