blackamoorn.

Brit.

/ˈblakəmɔː/, U.S.

/ˈblækəˌmɔr/

Forms:

α. 1500s Blacke moore, 1500s Blacke More, 1500s blacke-More, 1500s blacke more, 1500s blake More, 1500s–1600s Blacke Moore, 1500s–1600s blacke Moore, 1500s–1600s blacke moore, 1500s–1600s blacke More, 1500s–1600s Black-moor, 1500s–1600s Black-Moore, 1500s–1600s Black-moore, 1500s–1600s black Moore, 1500s–1600s blackmoore, 1500s–1600s black moore, 1500s–1600s Black more, 1500s–1600s black More, 1500s–1600s blackmore, 1500s–1600s black-more, 1500s–1700s Black Moore, 1500s–1700s Blackmore, 1500s–1800s blackmoor, 1600s Blacke-Moore, 1600s Blacke-moore, 1600s blacke-Moore, 1600s Blacke-More, 1600s Blackemore, 1600s Blacke-more, 1600s Blacke more, 1600s blackemore, 1600s blacke-more, 1600s Black-Moor, 1600s Black Moor, 1600s Black moor, 1600s black-Moor, 1600s black Moor, 1600s black moor, 1600s Blackmoore, 1600s Black moore, 1600s black-moore, 1600s Black mor, 1600s Black More, 1600s Black-More, 1600s Black-more, 1600s black more, 1600s–1800s Blackmoor, 1600s–1800s black-moor; also Scottish pre-1700 black-more, pre-1700 blak moir, pre-1700 blak more.

β. 1500s black a Moore, 1500s black a more, 1500s–1600s blackamoore, 1500s–1700s Blackamoore, 1500s–1800s Blackamore, 1500s–1800s blackamore, 1600s Black-a-Moore, 1600s Black-amoore, 1600s blackeamoore, 1600s blackeamore, 1600s–1800s Blackamoor, 1600s– blackamoor, 1700s– black-a-moor, 1800s blackymoor (English regional (Somerset)).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., Moor n.²

Etymology: < black adj. + Moor n.² The origin of the medial -a- in the β. forms has not been satisfactorily explained.It has sometimes been suggested (apparently earliest by the 17th-cent. grammarian John Wallis in his Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ: see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) I. 236) that the β. forms reflect a trisyllabic pronunciation of the α. forms and ultimately a survival of pronunciation of the final -e of the first element's variant form blacke , but this is very unlikely in view of the date of first attestation of the compound. The forms with medial -a- appear not to be paralleled in other compounds formed with black adj. as first element; the only possible exception is the later blackavised adj., but that word is perhaps itself influenced by blackamoor n. Apparently attested earlier in β. forms in a surname: John Blackamore (1556).

Now archaic and offensive.

1. A black African; †an Ethiopian (obsolete); (also) any dark-skinned person.Originally without depreciatory force. See note at Moor n.² 1.

ΘΚΠ

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

α.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxiiii^v/2 The thirde present..was brought in..by two men, fygured in the fourme of two blacke Moores richely apparelled.

1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Ethiopo, a blacke More, or a man of Ethiope.

a1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 417 (heading) Quod dunbar of an blak moir.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §9. 111 The Negro's, which we call the Black-mores.

1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 68 The Blackmoore may sooner change his skin, the Leopard his spots.

1669 S. Pepys Diary 5 Apr. (1976) IX. 510 For a cook-maid, we have..used a black-moore.

1711 R. Steele et al. Lucubrations Isaac Bickerstaff (rev. ed.) III. 213 A Coquet in the Consort..would break out upon, That hideous King! Then upon The charming black-moor! Then, O that dear Lion!

1821 London Lit. Gaz. 15 Sept. 588/2 Kindling the charcoal fire, with his lips pouched out, like those of a black-moor blowing the French-horn.

1880 R. F. Burton tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad II. x. 394 Behold those Blackmoors and their huts that stand sans doors.

β. 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. C.ij^v Lyke one that washeth a black a Moore white.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 77 I care not and shee were a blackeamore . 1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. 89 This is the Blackamore that by washing was turned white.1686 London Gaz. No. 2109/4 The Blackamoor's Head in West-Smithfield is to be Lett.1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. 207/1 The Instruction of the poor Blackamores.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 79 The first day we came to Bath, he..beat two black-a-moors.1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 39 What will become of him and his,..with this heretic Blackamore [sc. Lord Rackrent's Jewish wife] at the head of the Castle Rackrent estate.1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 110 For the matter of that, this damned nor-wester is enough to whiten the skin of a blackamoor.1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 271 As far below the reality as a blackamoor is unlike the sun.1906 Trans. Buchan Field Club 9 186 Jack..went to their castle, which was not far off, but kept by a blackamoor.1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean xi. 188 Under the loom of an island we see this canoe with the blackamoors fishing over the side.1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise iv. 24 ‘Why, she's as pale as any English girl’, as if he had expected a blackamoor!2002 Times 11 Feb. i. 1/1 A barrister who called a solicitor's clerk a ‘blackamoor’ was found guilty of race discrimination yesterday and suspended for a year by a Bar disciplinary tribunal.

2. figurative. A devil. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun]

hell-devileOE

shuckc888

ghosteOE

devilOE

warlockOE

angelOE

unwighta1200

beastc1225

ragmanc1400

Satanasc1426

diabolic1502

ruffy1502

Satan?1545

Avernal?1548

fallen angel?1587

rebel angel1623

deedle1653

blackamoor1663

1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. vi. 48 He's Dead long since, and gon to the Blackamores below.

1987 F. Clark Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues I. iii. xix. 637 Dying of the plague, he was borne away to hell by demon blackamoors.

Phrases

Categories »

to wash a blackamoor (white): see wash v. 3d.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

ΚΠ

1577 R. Willes tr. G. Pereira in R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 249^v This woman, and other moe with whom a blacke Moore damsell in our companye had conference,..had dwelte in Peghu.

1608 R. Johnson Hist. Seuen Champions Christendome (new ed.) i. 132 The condemned Blackamoore King came to the place of execution,..his hands piniond together with a chaine of gold.

1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads i. 403 To Blackmoor-land the Gods went yesterday.

1706 London Gaz. No. 4238/8 A Blackamore Man called Cæsar.

1856 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 350 A certain damsel,..having summoned her blackamoor page to her side, talks to him of love.

1901 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 145/2 She penitently admitted that the black-a-moor servant had slept in Sam Hough's sheet.

1975 M. Duffy Capital iv. 169 There cluster the blackamoor children begging with their dogs and monkeys.

2009 Atlantic Free Press (Nexis) 22 Sept. The merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles.

b. attributive. Black; black-skinned.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective]

blackOE

Morian1504

African1548

Negro1593

black Morian1631

neger1657

Ethiopian1684

nigger1689

Hubshee1698

Kaffir1731

Nigritian1757

Ethiopic1778

dingy1785

blackamoor1813

nigger-looking1837

darkie1840

Negroid1844

Negroloid1844

dinge1848

Melanian1861

negroish1861

Negroidal1878

Africanoid1885

chocolate?1886

melanodermic1924

nigra1938

tan1950

1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. I. xi. 325 The first blackamoor pullen I ever saw was here: the outward skin of the fowl was a perfect negro.

1839 R. M. Bird Adventures Robin Day I. vii. 55 Every minute there came, at least, one blackamoor visage to the door to survey the great Magus.

1856 E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 90 Some blackamoor rook.

1864 J. W. Weidemeyer Real & Ideal (1865) 89 In the belfrey [sic] sits hungry the black-a-moor crow.

1998 K. Elmslie Routine Disruptions 58 Blackamoor stump, How luminous you'll be.

C2.

blackamoor's tooth n. now historical a white cowrie shell, esp. as formerly used as currency in Africa; usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells

buckie1596

blackamoor's tooth1700

burgau1753

seashell1837

Bombay shell1858

paua shell1873

black helmet1876

1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 36 He has Shells called Blackmoors Teeth, I suppose..from their Whiteness.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. ii. ii. 102 Periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth..and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of Nature.

1901 M. Newbigin Life by Seashore xii. 245 The only other of these Gasteropods we shall mention is that curious little one known as the ‘blackamoor's tooth’, or cowry.

1994 N. Lewis Bk. of Babel i. v. 121 It was the money of the African slave trade, by association with which in England the white shells were known as ‘blackamoor's teeth’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blackamoor
释义	blackamoorn. Brit. /ˈblakəmɔː/, U.S. /ˈblækəˌmɔr/ Forms: α. 1500s Blacke moore, 1500s Blacke More, 1500s blacke-More, 1500s blacke more, 1500s blake More, 1500s–1600s Blacke Moore, 1500s–1600s blacke Moore, 1500s–1600s blacke moore, 1500s–1600s blacke More, 1500s–1600s Black-moor, 1500s–1600s Black-Moore, 1500s–1600s Black-moore, 1500s–1600s black Moore, 1500s–1600s blackmoore, 1500s–1600s black moore, 1500s–1600s Black more, 1500s–1600s black More, 1500s–1600s blackmore, 1500s–1600s black-more, 1500s–1700s Black Moore, 1500s–1700s Blackmore, 1500s–1800s blackmoor, 1600s Blacke-Moore, 1600s Blacke-moore, 1600s blacke-Moore, 1600s Blacke-More, 1600s Blackemore, 1600s Blacke-more, 1600s Blacke more, 1600s blackemore, 1600s blacke-more, 1600s Black-Moor, 1600s Black Moor, 1600s Black moor, 1600s black-Moor, 1600s black Moor, 1600s black moor, 1600s Blackmoore, 1600s Black moore, 1600s black-moore, 1600s Black mor, 1600s Black More, 1600s Black-More, 1600s Black-more, 1600s black more, 1600s–1800s Blackmoor, 1600s–1800s black-moor; also Scottish pre-1700 black-more, pre-1700 blak moir, pre-1700 blak more. β. 1500s black a Moore, 1500s black a more, 1500s–1600s blackamoore, 1500s–1700s Blackamoore, 1500s–1800s Blackamore, 1500s–1800s blackamore, 1600s Black-a-Moore, 1600s Black-amoore, 1600s blackeamoore, 1600s blackeamore, 1600s–1800s Blackamoor, 1600s– blackamoor, 1700s– black-a-moor, 1800s blackymoor (English regional (Somerset)). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., Moor n.² Etymology: < black adj. + Moor n.² The origin of the medial -a- in the β. forms has not been satisfactorily explained.It has sometimes been suggested (apparently earliest by the 17th-cent. grammarian John Wallis in his Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ: see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) I. 236) that the β. forms reflect a trisyllabic pronunciation of the α. forms and ultimately a survival of pronunciation of the final -e of the first element's variant form blacke , but this is very unlikely in view of the date of first attestation of the compound. The forms with medial -a- appear not to be paralleled in other compounds formed with black adj. as first element; the only possible exception is the later blackavised adj., but that word is perhaps itself influenced by blackamoor n. Apparently attested earlier in β. forms in a surname: John Blackamore (1556). Now archaic and offensive. 1. A black African; †an Ethiopian (obsolete); (also) any dark-skinned person.Originally without depreciatory force. See note at Moor n.² 1. ΘΚΠ 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 α. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. clxxiiii^v/2 The thirde present..was brought in..by two men, fygured in the fourme of two blacke Moores richely apparelled. 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Ethiopo, a blacke More, or a man of Ethiope. a1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 417 (heading) Quod dunbar of an blak moir. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §9. 111 The Negro's, which we call the Black-mores. 1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 68 The Blackmoore may sooner change his skin, the Leopard his spots. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 5 Apr. (1976) IX. 510 For a cook-maid, we have..used a black-moore. 1711 R. Steele et al. Lucubrations Isaac Bickerstaff (rev. ed.) III. 213 A Coquet in the Consort..would break out upon, That hideous King! Then upon The charming black-moor! Then, O that dear Lion! 1821 London Lit. Gaz. 15 Sept. 588/2 Kindling the charcoal fire, with his lips pouched out, like those of a black-moor blowing the French-horn. 1880 R. F. Burton tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad II. x. 394 Behold those Blackmoors and their huts that stand sans doors. β. 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. C.ij^v Lyke one that washeth a black a Moore white.1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 77 I care not and shee were a blackeamore . View more context for this quotation1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. 89 This is the Blackamore that by washing was turned white.1686 London Gaz. No. 2109/4 The Blackamoor's Head in West-Smithfield is to be Lett.1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. iii. 207/1 The Instruction of the poor Blackamores.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 79 The first day we came to Bath, he..beat two black-a-moors.1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 39 What will become of him and his,..with this heretic Blackamore [sc. Lord Rackrent's Jewish wife] at the head of the Castle Rackrent estate.1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 110 For the matter of that, this damned nor-wester is enough to whiten the skin of a blackamoor.1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 271 As far below the reality as a blackamoor is unlike the sun.1906 Trans. Buchan Field Club 9 186 Jack..went to their castle, which was not far off, but kept by a blackamoor.1956 P. O'Brian Golden Ocean xi. 188 Under the loom of an island we see this canoe with the blackamoors fishing over the side.1999 M. Cezair-Thompson True Hist. Paradise iv. 24 ‘Why, she's as pale as any English girl’, as if he had expected a blackamoor!2002 Times 11 Feb. i. 1/1 A barrister who called a solicitor's clerk a ‘blackamoor’ was found guilty of race discrimination yesterday and suspended for a year by a Bar disciplinary tribunal. 2. figurative. A devil. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > [noun] hell-devileOE shuckc888 ghosteOE devilOE warlockOE angelOE unwighta1200 beastc1225 ragmanc1400 Satanasc1426 diabolic1502 ruffy1502 Satan?1545 Avernal?1548 fallen angel?1587 rebel angel1623 deedle1653 blackamoor1663 1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. iv. vi. 48 He's Dead long since, and gon to the Blackamores below. 1987 F. Clark Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues I. iii. xix. 637 Dying of the plague, he was borne away to hell by demon blackamoors. Phrases Categories » to wash a blackamoor (white): see wash v. 3d. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. ΚΠ 1577 R. Willes tr. G. Pereira in R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 249^v This woman, and other moe with whom a blacke Moore damsell in our companye had conference,..had dwelte in Peghu. 1608 R. Johnson Hist. Seuen Champions Christendome (new ed.) i. 132 The condemned Blackamoore King came to the place of execution,..his hands piniond together with a chaine of gold. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads i. 403 To Blackmoor-land the Gods went yesterday. 1706 London Gaz. No. 4238/8 A Blackamore Man called Cæsar. 1856 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 350 A certain damsel,..having summoned her blackamoor page to her side, talks to him of love. 1901 New Eng. Mag. Oct. 145/2 She penitently admitted that the black-a-moor servant had slept in Sam Hough's sheet. 1975 M. Duffy Capital iv. 169 There cluster the blackamoor children begging with their dogs and monkeys. 2009 Atlantic Free Press (Nexis) 22 Sept. The merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles. b. attributive. Black; black-skinned. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] blackOE Morian1504 African1548 Negro1593 black Morian1631 neger1657 Ethiopian1684 nigger1689 Hubshee1698 Kaffir1731 Nigritian1757 Ethiopic1778 dingy1785 blackamoor1813 nigger-looking1837 darkie1840 Negroid1844 Negroloid1844 dinge1848 Melanian1861 negroish1861 Negroidal1878 Africanoid1885 chocolate?1886 melanodermic1924 nigra1938 tan1950 1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. I. xi. 325 The first blackamoor pullen I ever saw was here: the outward skin of the fowl was a perfect negro. 1839 R. M. Bird Adventures Robin Day I. vii. 55 Every minute there came, at least, one blackamoor visage to the door to survey the great Magus. 1856 E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 90 Some blackamoor rook. 1864 J. W. Weidemeyer Real & Ideal (1865) 89 In the belfrey [sic] sits hungry the black-a-moor crow. 1998 K. Elmslie Routine Disruptions 58 Blackamoor stump, How luminous you'll be. C2. blackamoor's tooth n. now historical a white cowrie shell, esp. as formerly used as currency in Africa; usually in plural. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > mollusc or sea-shells buckie1596 blackamoor's tooth1700 burgau1753 seashell1837 Bombay shell1858 paua shell1873 black helmet1876 1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 36 He has Shells called Blackmoors Teeth, I suppose..from their Whiteness. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. ii. ii. 102 Periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth..and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of Nature. 1901 M. Newbigin Life by Seashore xii. 245 The only other of these Gasteropods we shall mention is that curious little one known as the ‘blackamoor's tooth’, or cowry. 1994 N. Lewis Bk. of Babel i. v. 121 It was the money of the African slave trade, by association with which in England the white shells were known as ‘blackamoor's teeth’. 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