blackbeanv.
/ˈblakbiːn/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbin/, Irish English /ˈblækbiːn/ Originally and chiefly Irish English.
transitive. = blackball v. 1. (In quot. 1838 intransitive.)With allusion to the use, in a ballot or vote, of black beans to signify rejection.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)]
seclude1498
refrain1547
ostracize1649
proscribe1680
to send (a person) to Coventry1765
taboo1791
blackball1821
blackbean1829
to freeze out1861
unworld1868
exostracize1872
boycott1880
1783 H. Walstream Charter Party Free Annuity Company City Dublin (ed. 2) 49 If Black beaned or Objection made, that no Ballotting went on, the Earnest to be returned.
1829 T. C. Croker Legends Lakes I. v. 94 Geoffry Lynch of Drummin, who was black beaned at the club-room.
1838 New Monthly Mag. 53 122 To have ruined half a score of tailors..does not black-bean, in the very best company.
1880 Donahoe's Mag. Aug. 106/1 He sought the Fellowship of the College of Physicians shortly after, but was black-beaned in the ballot.
1906 G. A. Birmingham Hyacinth iii. 29 Hyacinth sent his name to the secretary, and was blackbeaned by an overwhelming majority of the members.
1968 Dublin Hist. Rec. 22 276 Evidence that he had given offence came when he first sought election to the Royal Irish Academy..and was blackbeaned.
2000 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 16 Feb. One of them was blackbeaned out of the shipyard for trying to set up a trade union for apprentices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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