单词 | white boy |
释义 | white boyn. 1. A man or boy who is highly regarded or favoured; a pet, a darling. Also as a term of endearment. Now rare. Cf. white adj. 9 and white son n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] > state or condition of being a favourite > favourite or pet darlingc888 favoura1387 dandilly?a1513 tidling1520 marmoset1523 white son1539 minion1566 favourite1582 white boyc1600 feddle1611 dautie1676 inclination1691 mother's pet1819 fair-haired boy1822 pet1825 white-haired boy1829 petsywetsy1847 blue-eyed boy1919 fave1938 c1600 Timon (1980) i. iii. 9 Gelas:..What speake the Virgines of me?.. Pæd. They terme you the delight of men, white boye Noble without Comparison. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiii. 20 The Pope was loth to adventure his darlings into danger: those white-boyes were to stay at home with his Holinesse their tender father. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 377 Joseph..was not only his earthly fathers white-boy, but his heavenly's also. 1726 E. Synge Vindic. Serm. House of Commons Irel. 87 I was a white Boy, but now Oh how fallen [L. Qui color albus erat nunc est contrarius albo]. 1770 Princ. Mod. Patriotism 49 Just now I thought Jack had expiated all his sins, that he was received into grace, and become a white boy with you. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iv. 72 Were war at the gates, I should be one of her [sc. Queen Elizabeth's] white boys. 1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 9 July in Waste Land Drafts (1971) p. xvii [At the Athenaeum] I am a sort of white boy; I have a longish critical review about three weeks out of four. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > other types of association, society, or organization > member digger1649 white boys1684 thuggee1852 droog1962 nipper1967 1684 J. Dryden in tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. League Postscr. 47 When a Body of white Boys was already appearing in the West. [Note by Sir W. Scott: White was the dress affected by those who crowded to see Monmouth in his western tour.] 1875 A. W. Ward Hist. Eng. Dramatic Lit. to Death of Queen Anne II. ix. 522 Sedition was divided among itself—the White Boys (Monmouth's adherents) quarrelling with the Sectaries with ‘Protestant flails’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > chorister > [noun] songereOE childOE clergionc1325 choristerc1360 chanterc1384 quirera1425 choirman1488 singing man1527 clerk1549 chorista1552 songman1599 singing boy1666 sing-man1691 white boy1691 white man1691 choirist1773 secular1786 chorister-boy1817 choirboy1843 1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 32 The Organs set up with a ding, The White-men roar, and White-Boys sing. 4. In plural. Usually as one word and with capital initial(s). The members of an agrarian protest organization active in Ireland in 1761–5 and again in 1769–75, whose chief grievances were the enclosure of land, extortionate leases and tithes, and the encroachment of livestock on tillage. Also in extended use: a rebellious or riotous group. Cf. Rightboys n. and whitefoot n. 2. Now historical.The organization originated in the poorest areas of County Tipperary, and chiefly consisted of bands of armed men who damaged farm property during night raids. The Whiteboys were one of a number of secret agrarian groups with broadly similar objectives and methods. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of hougher1712 white boys1762 Steel boy1772 defender1788 United Irishman1791 Orangeman1796 marksman1800 Thresher1806 marchman1814 Orangist1822 Rockite1824 Brunswicker1828 Terry Alt1831 whitefoot1831 Repeal Warden1841 Young Irelander1844 Fenian1864 Land-leaguer1878 invincible1883 leaguer1892 Provie1972 1762 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 183/2 What you, in Dublin, think of the White Boys, or Levellers, I cannot say. 1768 H. Walpole Let. 25 June (1842) III. 525 Those black dogs, the whiteboys or coal-heavers, are dispersed or taken. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 290 Who knows but you are one o' the tories yourself; or one o' the whiteboys—or cow boys—or skinners. 1898 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. Dec. 798/2 They were called ‘White Boys’ because they wore white shirt frocks as a uniform by which they might know each other in the night. 1920 A. L. Cross Shorter Hist. Eng. & Greater Brit. xliii. 538 In 1761, a secret organization, known as the Whiteboys..began to manifest the widespread resentment against enclosures and tithes. 1978 R. Butler Against Wind (1979) i. 6 The white scarf of the whiteboys was a badge of knight-errantry. 2011 R. Gott Britain's Empire i. vi. 50 The repression was successful, but the Whiteboys were to emerge in different disguises in Ireland in later years. 5. Originally and chiefly in African-American usage: (a derogatory term for) a white male. Also as a contemptuous form of address. Frequently attributive designating music, fashion, etc., viewed as appropriated from black culture by white males, often with the implication of a consequent reduction in quality or authenticity. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] white mana1398 Christian1622 European1666 white-face1684 long knife1784 buckra1794 sahib1796 white-skin1803 whitey1811 Pakeha1817 papalagi1817 paleface1823 whitefellow1826 Abelungu1836 haole1843 gringo1849 lightiea1855 umlungu1859 mzungu1860 heaven-burster1861 ladino1877 mooniasc1880 Conchy Joe1888 béké1889 ofay1899 ridge runner1904 Ngati Pakeha1905 kelch1912 pink1913 leucoderm1924 fay1927 Mr Charlie1928 pinkie1935 devil1938 wonk1938 oaf1941 grey1943 paddy1945 Caucasoid1956 Jumble1957 Caucasian1958 white boy1958 pinko-grey1964 honky1967 toubab1976 palagi1977 1958 A. Murray Let. 15 Nov. in R. Ellison & A. Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 199 At least 75 or 80% of this stuff these days is written by white boys, ofay academicians who would give anything to have been part of that same KC that produced the old Basie band in the first place. 1968 Negro Digest Sept. 31/2 Black critics will be reading and examining the ‘new’ black literature and they, not white boys, will determine what the black aesthetic is. 1987 R. Working Resurrectionists 160 ‘What you staring at, white boy?’ he demanded. 1991 J. Phillips You'll never eat Lunch in this Town Again 598 If you're really doing a rap label, will you please look at Brooke's tape? Kind of a whiteboy novelty rap? Pretty please? 1998 R. L. Fleming She's All That (film script, revised) (O.E.D. Archive) 3 (stage direct.) As the group oooh's their approval, a stocking-capped skateboarder with white-boy dreds whizzes into frame. 2006 A. Summers One Train Later vi. 101 This is a whole new bag, this is no white boy playing the blues, this is music from another planet. Derivatives whiteˈboyism n. now historical the principles or practices of the Whiteboys (sense 4). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies whiteboyism1777 Defenderism1795 United Irishism1800 republicanism1807 Orangeism1811 Rockism1824 repeal1830 unionism1831 whitefootism1832 West Britonism1841 Young Irelandism1846 Home Rule1858 Fenianism1866 Land-leaguism1881 nationalism1885 Sinn Feinism1907 partition1919 Ulsterization1977 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xxxii. 313 Till some step is taken in favour of tillage and the poor, Whiteboyism will probably remain. 1842 R. R. Madden United Irishmen I. 25 Whiteboyism was an association against high rents and tithes. 1893 Times 2 Oct. 3/6 Five men who had been sentenced at the Kerry Assizes in 1888,—for moonlighting and whiteboyism. 2006 D. Lundy Bloody Red Hand (2007) xiii. 192 The new underground United Irish, in effect, revived ‘Whiteboyism’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1600 |
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