boycott

nonsexist; named after English land agent Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832-1897), who was so harsh on the Irish tenants of his employer, Lord Erne, during a period of crop failures and famines that his neighbors shunned him and the tenant farmers refused to pay rent, stopped harvesting, and formed the Irish Land League. They drove off his servants, intercepted his mail, and tried to cut off his food supplies. See also girlcott.