ボイコット

1880, English boycott comes from Charles Cunningham Boycott, a land agent in County Mayo, western Ireland, during the Irish Land War near Lough Mask. Merriam-Webster gives the first use as 1880, and Britannica ties the term to organized ostracism promoted in the land agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell. Britannica also lists Boycott's birth in Norfolk in 1832 and death in Suffolk in 1897. The source form is a surname, Boycott, before it becomes a verb and noun. Japanese ボイコット enters political and social vocabulary in the late Meiji period. Shogakukan records an 1897 Jiji Shimpo example for a general refusal, a 1900-01 Tokutomi Roka example for exclusion of a family, and a 1907 Heimin Shinbun example connected with direct action. The word stands beside 不買運動, 排斥, ストライキ, and サボタージュ as a modern protest term. Modern Japanese ボイコット can mean refusing to buy goods, refusing to attend an event, or excluding a person or group by agreement. English boycott has the same main range, but Japanese often appears as ボイコットする with する. A short example is 投票をボイコットする, to boycott a vote.