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Wed 18 Mar, 2015 11:43 pm
Ok, i have a question. i was talking a friend, saying that his dad should run over his video games with a lawn mower (because he played games too much.) my friend then said, that if that were to happen, he would stand in between his dad on the lawn mower and his games, and would boycott his dad's authority by doing so. i understand boycott has a number of definitions and meanings, one of them including boycotting authority (usually used in the social relational context.) is the word boycott used correctly in this situation?
@samthejam,
Boycott is incorrect, try stymie or thwart.
@samthejam,
I saw the same video as your friend.
This is a link to the character who put the word into popular usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
In addition to the other suggestions, protest would be appropriate,.
Boycott...not so much.
@samthejam,
samthejam wrote:i understand boycott has a number of definitions and meanings, one of them including boycotting authority (usually used in the social relational context.)
A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social or political reasons. What your friend contemplated doing (physically preventing his father from destroying his video games) is not a boycott.
@samthejam,
Quote:i understand boycott has a number of definitions and meanings..
True, and it should never be confused with a girlcot, which happens when you get a Babe on a cot and......
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