Abon.adj.

Brit.

/ˈabəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈæboʊ/, Australian English

/ˈæboʊ/

Inflections: Plural Abos, Aboes.

Forms: 1900s– Abbo, 1900s– Abo, 1900s– Abo. (with point). Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: aboriginal n.; aboriginal adj.

Etymology: Partly (as noun) shortened < aboriginal n. and partly (as adjective) shortened < aboriginal adj.

Australian slang (now considered offensive).

A. n.

A member of an Australian Aboriginal people.The emergence of ‘Abo’ in this sense was assisted by its use in a regular feature appearing in the Sydney Bulletin entitled ‘Aboriginality’: see quots. [1904–6].

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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun]

New Hollander1697

Australian1815

blackfellow1827

aboriginal1828

Jacky Jacky1845

nigger1845

Australoid1869

murri1884

Abo1908

binghi1933

boong1941

1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Sept. 16/2 Have any ‘Abo's’ [sc. readers of ‘Aboriginalities’] noticed that Willie is a one-man-one-job advocate?

1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Apr. 14/3 Can any aboliar state definitely how long sheep can do without water?]

1908 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Mar. 14/3 At one time when a stranger approached a blacks' camp the juvenile King Billies..would disappear into the gunyahs..and the departing visitor was always well out of coo-ee before the little black nuts would bob out…The little abos. of the present day have not much trace of shyness.

1922 ‘Te Whare’ Bush Cinema 91 Fires were lighted, and the ‘abos’ feasted royally on fish broiled on live coals.

1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xiv. 138 The abos are different—nicer than any I've ever seen before.

1944 S. Campion Pommy Cow 193 They're the only craftsmen left in Australia, them aboes.

1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice iii. 82 Black boys—black stockmen. Abos.

1965 G. H. Fearnside Golden Ram 10 When you're on the wallaby you get t'thinking like the Abos., the Old People.

1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 135 Lower even than the dunny man, I was—a real larrikin, a wild bushman, even worse than an abbo.

2002 S. Finnan in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking 33 Being Aboriginal was never an issue for me, like people wouldn't look at me and say, ‘Oh, you're an Abo!’ or whatever, nothing was ever spoken about my Aboriginality.

B. adj.

Australian Aboriginal.In quot. 1906, see note at A.

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the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective]

aboriginal1825

aborigine1835

Australioid1864

Abo1911

1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Oct. 17/3 Remarkable the number of ‘Abo’ writers who have been chased by snakes.]

1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 4/1 All the Abo. Protector crowd are being run down by Chow white-men.

1922 ‘Te Whare’ Bush Cinema 38 An ‘abo’ legend attaches to the great bluff between Bermagni and Tathra.

1932 W. Hatfield Ginger Murdoch 65 The futility of looking for those horses—unless they had with them a particularly good abo. tracker.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 103 The abo family went walkabout.

1978 P. Howard Weasel Words xliii. 162 It would be churlish..to say that the Queen had gone loco and abo..yet that..is what we are saying every time we describe her..as going walkabout.

1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 14 Oct. c13 He's wandering by on a walkabout, an Abo ritual that sends young teenagers into the Outback for several months as a rite of manhood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abo
释义	Abon.adj. Brit. /ˈabəʊ/, U.S. /ˈæboʊ/, Australian English /ˈæboʊ/ Inflections: Plural Abos, Aboes. Forms: 1900s– Abbo, 1900s– Abo, 1900s– Abo. (with point). Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: aboriginal n.; aboriginal adj. Etymology: Partly (as noun) shortened < aboriginal n. and partly (as adjective) shortened < aboriginal adj. Australian slang (now considered offensive). A. n. A member of an Australian Aboriginal people.The emergence of ‘Abo’ in this sense was assisted by its use in a regular feature appearing in the Sydney Bulletin entitled ‘Aboriginality’: see quots. [1904–6]. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [noun] New Hollander1697 Australian1815 blackfellow1827 aboriginal1828 Jacky Jacky1845 nigger1845 Australoid1869 murri1884 Abo1908 binghi1933 boong1941 1904 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Sept. 16/2 Have any ‘Abo's’ [sc. readers of ‘Aboriginalities’] noticed that Willie is a one-man-one-job advocate? 1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Apr. 14/3 Can any aboliar state definitely how long sheep can do without water?] 1908 Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Mar. 14/3 At one time when a stranger approached a blacks' camp the juvenile King Billies..would disappear into the gunyahs..and the departing visitor was always well out of coo-ee before the little black nuts would bob out…The little abos. of the present day have not much trace of shyness. 1922 ‘Te Whare’ Bush Cinema 91 Fires were lighted, and the ‘abos’ feasted royally on fish broiled on live coals. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xiv. 138 The abos are different—nicer than any I've ever seen before. 1944 S. Campion Pommy Cow 193 They're the only craftsmen left in Australia, them aboes. 1950 ‘N. Shute’ Town like Alice iii. 82 Black boys—black stockmen. Abos. 1965 G. H. Fearnside Golden Ram 10 When you're on the wallaby you get t'thinking like the Abos., the Old People. 1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 135 Lower even than the dunny man, I was—a real larrikin, a wild bushman, even worse than an abbo. 2002 S. Finnan in L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking 33 Being Aboriginal was never an issue for me, like people wouldn't look at me and say, ‘Oh, you're an Abo!’ or whatever, nothing was ever spoken about my Aboriginality. B. adj. Australian Aboriginal.In quot. 1906, see note at A. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > New Zealand and Australian indigenous peoples > Australian Aboriginal peoples > [adjective] aboriginal1825 aborigine1835 Australioid1864 Abo1911 1906 Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Oct. 17/3 Remarkable the number of ‘Abo’ writers who have been chased by snakes.] 1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Nov. 4/1 All the Abo. Protector crowd are being run down by Chow white-men. 1922 ‘Te Whare’ Bush Cinema 38 An ‘abo’ legend attaches to the great bluff between Bermagni and Tathra. 1932 W. Hatfield Ginger Murdoch 65 The futility of looking for those horses—unless they had with them a particularly good abo. tracker. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 103 The abo family went walkabout. 1978 P. Howard Weasel Words xliii. 162 It would be churlish..to say that the Queen had gone loco and abo..yet that..is what we are saying every time we describe her..as going walkabout. 1997 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 14 Oct. c13 He's wandering by on a walkabout, an Abo ritual that sends young teenagers into the Outback for several months as a rite of manhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas ABO ABO adj. Medicine designating a system of classifying human blood based on the presence or absence of A and B antigens on red blood cells, resulting in four blood types, A, B, AB, and O. ΚΠ 1937 J. C. Thomas in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Aug. 317/2 By far the most complete investigations of the heredity of the blood groups have been made with the ABO system. 2000 Chatham (Ont.) Daily News (Nexis) 10 Nov. 10 Everyone has heard about ABO blood types and how important it is to match a recipient's blood type with the same type of donor blood. extracted from An. < n.adj.1908 as lemmas
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