| 单词 | a dash or touch of the tar-brush |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa dash or touch of the tar-brush 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. < as lemmas |
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