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Taboo   /tæbˈu/   Listen
Taboo

noun
(Written also tabu)
1.
A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature.  Synonym: tabu.
2.
An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.  Synonym: tabu.
adjective
(Written also tabu and tapu)
1.
Excluded from use or mention.  Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, tabu, verboten.  "In our house dancing and playing cards were out" , "A taboo subject"
2.
Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.  Synonym: tabu.
verb
(past & past part. tabooed; pres. part. tabooing)  (Written also tabu)
1.
Declare as sacred and forbidden.





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"Taboo" Quotes from Famous Books



... subject almost violently. John Williamson made a practise of going to the Globe, he knew, but that John, who never spotted an allusion in his life, should have come home and passed the word along, and that all references to musical-comedy should therefore be taboo on ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... nuts and pine-branches, which supplied body-building material, and which she weighed out with scrupulous accuracy, in accordance with the directions of the "Uric Acid Monthly." Tea and coffee were taboo, since they flooded the blood with purins, and the kitchen boiler rumbled day and night to supply the rivers of boiling water with which (taken in sips) she inundated her system. Strange gaunt females ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson
... true. It is precisely that which led me to formulate my theory in the first place. How else are we to explain that the Nipe, for all his tremendous technical knowledge, is nonetheless a member of a society that is still in the ancient ritual-taboo ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett
... who will never more smile on me as they were wont to smile! How many flowers of rhetoric have been wasted on me by the irony of fate! How many billets-doux, so perfumed and pretty, lie in my desk addressed to my nether garment! And how many mammas have encouraged Mr. Christopher, who will forever taboo Miss Bloggs! And then the parties and the picnics! Ah, my dear Orphea, what do I not sacrifice on the altar of my sex. ...
— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon
... she answered lightly. "They've discussed the Bethel family so frequently and with such vigour that a little more or less makes no difference whatsoever. Pendragon taboo! we won't dishonour the sea by such a discussion in its ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole


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