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单词 white boy
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white boyn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪt ˌbɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˌbɔɪ/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and boy n.1 and int.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., boy n.1
Etymology: < white adj. + boy n.1On the semantic motivation of sense 2 see quot. 1684. In sense 4, the members of the group were so called on account of the white garments which they wore on their night raids.
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.
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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.
2. In plural. Supporters of Monmouth's rebellion. Obsolete. rare.James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, was the illegitimate son of Charles II. In 1685 he led an unsuccessful Protestant rebellion against the new Catholic King, James II.
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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’.
3. A surpliced choir boy. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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