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      "This section or entry lacks references or sources. Please help verify this information by adding appropriate citations. You can also discuss it at the Tea Room.\nBorrowed from Tongan tapu (\u201cprohibited, sacred\u201d), from Proto-Polynesian tapu, from Proto-Oceanic tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.\nThe p in the Tongan source was misheard as b."
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            "mean": "An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.\n1922,  James Frazer,  The Golden Bough:So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.\n1974,  Lawrence Durrell,  Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 213:The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.\n1981,  William Irwin Thompson,  The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.\n2023 June 6,  Kevin Roose,  \u201cWhy I Can\u2019t Bet Against Apple\u2019s Mixed-Reality Prowess\u201d, in  The New York Times\u200e, \u2192ISSN:Now, we assume that people who check their watches at dinner are probably trying to avoid pulling out their phones, which would be ruder and more disruptive. In other words, mass adoption killed the taboo."
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            "mean": "(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred."
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            "mean": "To mark as taboo."
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