blackbirder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person involved in blackbirding (kidnapping Pacific islanders as cheap labour).
    — The renaming of New South Wales’s Ben Boyd National Park — named for Australia’s first blackbirder — as Beowa National Park in 2022 was a good first step. But apologising for running a slave trade that tore tens of thousands of Pacific islanders from their families should not be a hard sell in Australia’s parliament.
  2. A ship used for blackbirding; a slaver.
  3. A slavecatcher US
    — Runaway slaves and free blacks were constantly being kidnapped by New York City’s many “Blackbirders,” slave-catching bounty hunters who deported their captures to the plantations.

词形变化

blackbirders plural

词源

Etymology tree
English blackbird
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blackbirder
From blackbird + -er.
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