User:Benwing2/black-opt

Etymology
From, , , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , possibly from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). More at.

Adjective

 * 1)  Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
 * 2)  Without light.
 * 3)  Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
 * 4)  Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
 * black drinking fountain; black hospital
 * 1)  Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare
 * I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens.
 * 1) Bad; evil; ill-omened.
 * 2) * 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
 * ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
 * 1) * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
 * Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.
 * 1) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
 * He shot her a black look.
 * 1) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
 * 2) * 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
 * Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
 * 1)  Overcrowded.
 * 2)  Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
 * Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
 * 1)  Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second).
 * The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
 * 1)  Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare.
 * Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
 * 1)  Related to the  of Germany.
 * After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
 * 1) Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
 * 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
 * 1) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
 * Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster, then Protestant east Ulster. Compare also blackmouth ["Presbyterian"] and the Royal Black Institution.
 * 1) *1914 May 27, "Review of The North Afire by W. Douglas Newton", The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 86, page t:
 * Now April's brother, once also holding a commission in that regiment, was an Ulster Volunteer, her father a staunch, black Protestant, her family tremulously "loyal" to the country whose Parliament was turning them out of its councils.
 * 1) *1985 April, J. A. Weaver, "John Henry Biggart 1905-1979 — A portrait in respect and affection", Ulster Medical Journal, volume 54, number 1, page 1:
 * He [Sir John Henry Biggart] was personally amused at having once been called "a black bastard".
 * 1) *2007 September 6, Fintan O'Toole, "Diary", London Review of Books volume 29, number 17, page 35:
 * He had been playing Gaelic football for Lisnaskea Emmets, his local team in County Fermanagh, against a team from nearby Brookeborough, when someone from the opposing team called him a ‘black cunt’. ‘Black’, in this case, was a reference not to the colour of his skin but to his religion. It is short for ‘Black Protestant’, a long-standing term of sectarian abuse.
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino
 * black birch, black locust, black rhino

Synonyms

 * ; swart

Antonyms

 * , d, lit
 * , d, lit

Noun

 * 1)  The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
 * 2) * Shakespeare
 * Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
 * 1)  A black dye or pigment.
 * 2)  A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
 * 3)  Black cloth hung up at funerals.
 * 4) * 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Death", Essays:
 * Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
 * 1)  A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
 * 2) * 2004, Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (page 108)
 * Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks, accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
 * 1)  The black ball.
 * 2)  The edge of home plate
 * 3)  A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
 * 4)  Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
 * 5)  The person playing with the black set of pieces.
 * At this point black makes a disastrous move.
 * 1)  Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
 * 2) * Sir K. Digby
 * the black or sight of the eye
 * 1)  A stain; a spot.
 * 2) * Rowley
 * defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
 * defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust

Synonyms

 * blackness
 * African American, Afro-American , person of color or person of colour , person of African descent
 * Negro
 * coon, darkie or darky, nigger
 * Negro
 * coon, darkie or darky, nigger

Verb

 * 1) To make black, to blacken.


 * 1) * 1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks
 * "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
 * "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
 * 1) * 1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down
 * Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
 * 1) * 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts
 * I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
 * 1) To apply blacking to something.
 * 2) * 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * ...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
 * 1) * 1861, George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel
 * But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
 * 1) * 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
 * Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
 * 1)  To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) relating to a  person or culture

Noun

 * 1)  person