单词 | blackfellow |
释义 | blackfellown. Originally: any dark-skinned man (cf. black man n. 1). In later use Australian: an Australian Aboriginal man. Now usually considered offensive.This term is now usually considered racially offensive when used by a white person in reference to a black or Australian Aboriginal person. Recently the term has been reclaimed by some Australian Aboriginal speakers and used with more positive connotations (see quots. 1998, 2002; see also quots. 1988 and 2007 at Compounds 1). Cf. nigger n. 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 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 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 212 When Mahomet was thirteene yeare old, as he wandred abroad..and wheresoever he went there was many times seene a black fellow standing by him. 1683 W. Hedges Diary 1 Mar. (1887) I. 66 Having had no other sport than one hare killed with an arrow by a black fellow in ye woods, I returned by my tent. 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 191 Natives, who had been got up together at the Persuasion of a Black Fellow. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 38 One bold fellow shamed a number of them to stop and give battle, fearlessly advancing in front, brandishing his spear, and shouting, ‘Come on, white fellow—black fellow no jirrand’ (afraid). 1828 New Monthly Mag. 23 220 The fish are so abundant that a black fellow with a seine, can load a bullock-cart at one or two hauls. 1831 D. Tyerman & G. Bennet Voy. & Trav. II. xxxvii. 158 In his opinion, the best use which could be made of ‘the black fellows’ would be, to shoot them all. 1865 Intellectual Observer No. 37. 15 Panther-like approach of the Blackfellow. 1874 C. De Boos Congewoi Corr. 67 He runs as smooth aser doughboy down a blackfeller's throat. 1898 D. W. Carnegie Spinifex & Sand 154 It is marvellous how soon a tame boy comes to despise his own people, when he far outstrips any white man in his contemptuous manner of speaking about a ‘—— black-fella’. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King iv. 28 His camp was a dugout in the bank of a creek, with blackfellow Billy for company. 1969 D. Cusack Half-Burnt Tree 13 Dad got mad when he said ‘blackfeller’. ‘Don't use that word, Kem,’ he said. ‘We've got a name like every other race.’ 1998 P. Gwynne Deadly Unna? xxxiv. 218 Hey, you whitefella. Piss off. This here's blackfella's business, unna. 2002 R. Taylor Unearthed 270 When I asked Louise how Tiger expressed his pride, she replied, ‘He’d say..“I'm an Aborigine,”..“I'm a black man,” or “I'm a blackfella.”’ CompoundsAustralian. C1. attributive. Designating an Australian Aboriginal person; of or relating to Australian Aboriginal people. Now usually considered offensive (see note at main sense). ΚΠ 1884 A. W. Howitt On Some Austral. Ceremonies Initiation 5 His father..was a renowned ‘blackfellow doctor’ of the Wiraijuri tribe. 1936 F. Clune Roaming Darling xxii. 220 O'Hea kept a strict eye on Andy, who could speak blackfellow language. 1942 C. Barrett From Bush Hut 37 A blackfellow name for the rock-possum. 1951 E. Hill Territory 346 Every tribal rite and belief belong to ‘blackfella dreamin’. 1975 D. Stuart Walk, trot, canter & Ride ii. 21 Joe stared at the blackfeller girl. 1988 in P. Foss Island in Stream 147 The white people just think we're stupid, rubbish. We do not want to be like them, we have our own blackfella culture. 2007 N. Olive Enough is Enough 227 I put forward some ideas on central issues like blackfella empowerment, land and culture. C2. blackfellow-fashion adv. now considered offensive in the manner of Australian Aboriginal people. ΚΠ 1862 A. Polehampton Kangaroo Land 106 Our meat we..threw..on the ashes to cook itself—black-fellow fashion. 1963 C. Barrett in B. Wannan Treasury Austral. Frontier Tales 44 She was forced to climb trees blackfellow fashion—cutting notches in the bark for the feet, and using a vine-stem loop. 1984 R. M. W. Dixon Searching for Aboriginal Lang. (1989) 101 Douglas's wife died four or five years later, and he followed her within a couple of months. As Percy put it, ‘he sang himself to sleep, blackfellow fashion.’ blackfellow's bread n. (also blackfellows bread, blackfellows' bread) now chiefly historical = native bread n. at native adj. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fungi > [noun] > other underground fungi Indian bread1820 native bread1831 blackfellow's bread1871 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > truffle or underground fungus > other underground fungi native bread1831 blackfellow's bread1871 1871 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 22 Aug. 1/7 These truffles are said to be plentiful at Oakwood, where they are known as ‘blackfellow's bread’. 1902 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 27 542 Polyporus mylittae…The sclerotium of this species is of common occurrence in the eastern States of Australia as well as in Tasmania under the name of ‘Black Fellows' Bread’. 2007 P. A. Clarke Aboriginal People & their Plants i. 20/1 In Tasmania and Victoria, an edible subterranean fungus known as ‘native bread’ or ‘blackfellows bread’ was highly sought after by Aboriginal gatherers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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