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backbiting
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English bakbitynge, bacbiting, bacbitung, equivalent to backbite +? -ing.
Noun
backbiting (countable and uncountable, plural backbitings)
- The action of slandering a person without that person's knowledge.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bakbytynge, equivalent to backbite +? -ing.
Adjective
backbiting (comparative more backbiting, superlative most backbiting)
- Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
Verb
backbiting
- present participle of backbite
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blackmail
English
Etymology
From black + mail (“a piece of money”). Compare Middle English blak rente (“a type of blackmail levied by Irish chieftains”).
The word is variously derived from the tribute paid by English and Scottish border dwellers to Border Reivers in return for immunity from raids and other harassment. This tribute was paid in goods or labour, in Latin reditus nigri "blackmail"; the opposite is blanche firmes or reditus albi "white rent", denoting payment by silver. Alternatively, McKay derives it from two Scottish Gaelic words blàthaich, pronounced (the th silent) bl-aich, "to protect" and màl (“tribute, payment”). He notes that the practice was common in the Highlands of Scotland as well as the Borders.
More likely, from black (adj.) + Middle English mal, male, maile (“a payment, rent, tribute”), from Old English m?l (“speech, contract, agreement, lawsuit, terms, bargaining”), from Old Norse mál (“agreement, speech, lawsuit”); related to Old English mæðel "meeting, council," mæl "speech," Gothic ???????????????? (maþl) "meeting place," from Proto-Germanic *maþl?, from PIE *mod- "to meet, assemble" (see meet (v.)). From the practice of freebooting clan chieftains who ran protection rackets against Scottish farmers. Black from the evil of the practice. Expanded c.1826 to any type of extortion money. Compare silver mail "rent paid in money" (1590s); buttock-mail (Scottish, 1530s) "fine imposed for fornication."
Pronunciation
Noun
blackmail (uncountable)
- The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
- (archaic) A form of protection money (or corn, cattle, etc.) anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to the allies of robbers in order to be spared from pillage.
- (England law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
- Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
Derived terms
- emotional blackmail
- post-attack blackmail
Translations
Verb
blackmail (third-person singular simple present blackmails, present participle blackmailing, simple past and past participle blackmailed)
- (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
- He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- (Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
Translations
Related terms
- graymail, whitemail, greenmail
See also
- extortion
- protection racket
Scots
Etymology
From black (“bad”) +? mail (“rent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?k???l/, /?bl?k???l/
- (Southern Scotland) IPA(key): /?bl??k????l/
Noun
blackmail (uncountable)
- (archaic) A tribute paid, usually in kind, to reivers or raiders as a form of protection money.
- Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation.
Verb
blackmail (third-person singular present blackmails, present participle blackmailin, past blackmailt, past participle blackmailt)
- To extort money from another by means of intimidation.
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