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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish Land War and is derived from the name of Captain Charles Boycott, the estate agent of an absentee landlord, Earl Erne in County Mayo, Ireland.See the Related Link which gives a detailed account.
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It came from Capt. Charles C. Boycott (1832 - 1897), who was a British land agent ostracised by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agricultural tenants' rights (1880). The term went into the English language: to boycott, which means to ostracise (to exclude, leave out).
Here are 5 words to get you started: August (Augustus Caesar); boycott (Charles C. Boycott); caesarean section (Julius Caesar); lynch (William Lynch); and, masochism (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch). Here are 5 words to get you started: August (Augustus Caesar); boycott (Charles C. Boycott); caesarean section (Julius Caesar); lynch (William Lynch); and, masochism (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch).
they got on with there lives and died
The word boycott derives from the surname of an English Army officer, Boycott, who was shunned by the Irish because of his activities. That type of shunning can to be described by his name.
boycott English goods
The sons of liberty
An unoffical group of colonists.
because they were unsteady and needed the sales
decide to boycott
Charles Dawin's nationality was English.