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单词 to call a person out of his or her name
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to call a person out of his or her name
c. to call a person out of his or her name and variants: to call a person by a name other than his or her given one; (hence) to call a person an abusive name, to insult a person. Similarly in to call a thing out of its name. Now regional and in African-American usage.
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the mind > language > naming > give a name [verb (intransitive)] > address by wrong name
to call a person out of his or her name1606
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. A3v I neuer cal'd her out of name, by this hand Vncle, to my remembrance.
1639 J. Lilburne Come out of Her 30 You William Laud, Prelate of Canterburie, for so I call you, and will not in the least revile your person, by calling you out of your name.
1664 R. Venning Beauty of Holines 20 in Things worth thinking On I need not call it [sc. sin] out of its Name, for a worse cannot be given it.
1786 J. Johnstone Disbanded Officer iii. iii. 34 Pardon me, if I call you out of your name.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ii. 12 Perhaps if she was to be called out of her name, it would be considered in the wages.
1885 C. M. Yonge Two Sides of Shield I. iii. 38 She had rather not be called out of her name.
1924 C. Greer-Petrie Angeline gits Eyeful 7 That old werman is li'ble to call anything out of hits name. She's awful furgitful and is alluz gittin' her words tangled up.
1970 L. Meriwether Daddy was Number Runner viii. 121 It was the second time today somebody had called me out of my name..and I was getting sick of it.
1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities v. 114 ‘He called me out of my name!’ ‘I explained this to you, Mr. 92X. The clerk is bound by a legal requirement. But in view of your evident intention to change your name,..the court is content to refer to you as Herbert 92X for the purpose of these proceedings.’
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 51/2 Call someone out of his or her name, verbally abuse, scold someone; call someone abusive names.
2003 ‘Zane’ Nervous xx. 124 ‘Oh, never mind, I already know your name. Bitch!’ ‘That's not very ladylike, calling me out of my name.’
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