单词 | black man |
释义 | black mann. 1. A dark-skinned man, esp. a man of sub-Saharan African or Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. Also: †a dark-haired or swarthy man (obsolete). Cf. black adj. 3a. 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 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. ii. 136 In hote londes comeþ forþ blake men and browne. 1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. v. f. x Ethyopia the londe of blak men [a1387 St. John's Cambr. Blomen]. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 90v Thinhabitantes of Quarequa lyue in continuall warre and debate with these blacke men [L. cum his nigris]. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias ii. 7 b Deeming..that those blacke men meant him no harme, nor would offer anye force. 1600 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1600/11/9 He beleves that ane blak man that wes thair..wes Hew Moncreif. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. ii. 12 Blacke men are Pearles, in beauteous Ladies eyes. View more context for this quotation 1738 F. Moore Trav. Inland Afr. 102 After which came on Shore the Captain, four Writers, one Apprentice,..and one Black Man. 1772 W. O'Brien Cross Purposes ii. 44 He's as handsome a black man, I think, as ever I saw. 1820 J. Talbot Hist. N. Amer. II. 10 Two slaves, the one a black man, a native of the place. 1894 F. A. Steel Potter's Thumb iv He wondered..what certain politicians at home would say to this candid distrust of the black man. 1952 P. H. Abrahams Path of Thunder ii. ii. 91 If a black man could go to Parliament and had all the same rights as a white man..then it would be all right. 2004 New Yorker 20 Dec. 144/2 A black man with banana-yellow hair standing in the small crowd. 2. regional and colloquial. An evil spirit; the devil. Also: a bogeyman invoked to frighten children. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] evil angel, spiritc950 ghosteOE uncleanOE demonOE devilOE devilshineOE groa1225 debleriea1325 devilnessa1400 devilryc1400 sprat?a1475 nicker1481 fiend of hell1509 imp1526 virtue1584 elf1587 succubus1601 blue devilc1616 black man1656 woolsaw1757 buggane1775 bhut1785 demonic1785 pishachi1807 devil-devil1831 skookum1838 taipo1848 lightning bird1870 demonry1883 pisaca1885 mafufunyanas1963 mare1981 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin thursec725 puckOE puckleOE goblina1350 hurlewaynes kin1399 Hoba1500 bogle?1507 chimera?1521 hobgoblin1530 chyppynutie?1553 bearbug1560 boggard1570 bugbear?c1570 empusa1572 puckerelc1580 puck bug1582 imp1584 urchin1584 fear-babea1586 hob-thrush1590 hodge-poker1598 lar1598 poker1598 bogle-bo1603 mormo1605 foliot1621 mormolukee1624 buggle-boo1625 pug1631 black man1656 feind1659 Tom Poker1673 duende1691 boodie?a1700 worricow1711 bolly1724 Tom Po1744 fleying1811 pooka1824 booger1827 alp1828 boll1847 bogy1857 beastie1867 boogie1880 shag boy1882 1591 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. 246 Þe Dewill start vp in þe pulpett, lyke ane mekill blak man, with ane blak baird stikand out lyke ane gettis baird.] 1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 12 Some entertain conference with God or his Angels, others conceit themselves bewitched or that a black man or Devil perpetually accompanies them. 1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xii. 48 I send the Goblins..the nightbats,..the black men. 1727 New Mem. Lit. Nov. 329 He saw..a black Man, with horns in his head and sparkling eyes..whom he took to be the Grand Master, that is, the Devil. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 155 His strange Fits began at Westly-Hall, where an Appearance of a black Man grinned at him, and pressed very hard upon him. 1851 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 240/2 ‘The foreigner’, who is to the farmers what the black man and the sweep of nurse-maids are to children. 1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington I. iii. 37 Rich as Crœsus, and as wicked as the black man below! 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Black-man, a terrible object; a bogy; a nursery terror. (Very com.) Now you be good chillern, else the black-man 'll come down the chimley arter ee. 1969 J. C. Faris in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming Newfoundl. 138 One would seldom, even in jest, call someone a Devil…circumlocutions are used, such as ‘Black Man’, [etc.]. 2000 W. M. Adler Mollie's Job viii. 157 My aunt used to scare me by saying if I wasn't good, the black man—the bogeyman—would come and get me. 3. English regional (Lancashire). = black master n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > undertaker undertaker1698 upholder1709 death-hunter1723 black master1823 funeral director1834 mortician1895 black man1927 thanatologist1972 1927 Dict. Occup. Terms §925 Undertaker; blackman (Lancashire). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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