blackboyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• black boy

語源

From black +‎ boy. For sense (plant of genus Xanthorrhoea):, from a supposed resemblance of the plant to an Aboriginal boy holding an upright spear.

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blackboy (複数形 blackboys)

1. (Australia, obsolete, possibly offensive) An Aboriginal boy or servant.
   • 1898, Guy Boothby, Billy Binks—Hero, republished in Ken Gelder, Rachael Weaver, The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction, page 118,

     A moment later he beckoned the blackboy to his side, and when he arrived pointed to the ground. The boy gesticulated in answer, and then both pulled their horses to a standstill and waited for me to come up.

   • 1906, South Australian Geology Department, Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Robert Etheridge, Reports (geological かつ general) resulting from the explorations made by the government geologist and staff during 1905, page 36,

     September 30th, 1905.—Examined some hills in the locality. A Chinaman and some blackboys are camped here with some cattle belonging to the Mount Diamond butcher.

   • 1930, Mary Montgomerie Bennett, The Australian Aboriginal as a Human Being‎^[1], page 49:

     His tracks joined a cattle pad, and the blackboys followed them at speed, two riding on each side of the path.