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Boycott

proper nounattested in dialogue

A hamlet in Stowe parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6636).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A hamlet in Stowe parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP6636).

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English Boicote, probably from Old English Bōia cot (“Bōia's cottage”). The first element was a common Germanic name of obscure meaning, with parallels in Old Norse and Franconian dialects. Some proposed connections include bugan (“bent”), buan (“live”), or the root of modern bully.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).