http://www.doricdictionary.com/black-affronted-adjective-embarrased/ A Humorous Resource For Students Of The Doric Dialect, Ken Fit A Mean? Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://www.doricdictionary.com/black-affronted-adjective-embarrased/#comment-474 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 16:11:36 +0000 http://www.doricdictionary.com/?p=227#comment-474 another probable derivation comes from New lanark, a cotton mill operated on humanitarian lines by Robert Owen. Above a worker’s machine there was a wooden cube. Overseers would turn the cube to show the quality of work. The black front of the cube was shown when work was substandard. Hence this use of embarrassment as a social control is a more likely meaning of black affronted. Is there any use of the term known before 1800?

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