tabooed

[ tuh-boo, ta- ]

as ininhibit
as inoutlaw
as inprohibit
as ininterdict
as indeny
as indisallow
as inenjoin
as inexcept
as inforbid

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Word Origin & History

1777 (in Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean"), "consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed," explained in some English sources as being from Tongan (Polynesian language of the island of Tonga) ta-bu "sacred," from ta "mark" + bu "especially." But this may be folk etymology, as linguists in the Pacific have reconstructed an irreducable Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu "sacred, forbidden" (cf. Hawaiian kapu "taboo, prohibition, sacred, holy, consecrated;" Tahitian tapu "restriction, sacred;" Maori tapu "be under ritual restriction, prohibited"). The noun and verb are English innovations first recorded in Cook's book.

Example Sentences fortabooed

Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.

Politics was a subject dear to her heart, but one tabooed at Upton.

Why iron should have been tabooed by the Fairy and her father, must remain an open question.

The language of Shakespeare and the Bible contains words which are now tabooed.

A thing which is tabooed becomes interesting and more or less awful.

You mustn't abuse the chapel to Frank; just at this moment the subject is tabooed.

Some of the boys wanted to sing, but this had to be tabooed.

We were told that Terreeoboo was absent, and that the bay was tabooed.

Or tabooed,” suggested the lady; “his tongue may have been tabooed.

They settle what or who is to be tabooed, and how long it is to last.