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ˈred-blooded, a.
[red a. 14 a.]
1. Having red blood.
1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 370 These organs are the same in the white as in the red-blooded animals. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 388 The Annelides,..or Red-blooded Worms, constitute the first [class].
2. Restored to health and strength after weakness or exhaustion.
1877Tennyson Harold iv. iii. 131 Sit down, sit down, and eat, And, when again red-blooded, speak again.
3. transf. Virile, vigorous, full of life, spirited.
1881A. A. Hayes New Colorado xi. 155 [Nothing] can be conceived more exasperating to a strong red-blooded man than to..have a villain take his watch and money. 1888W. Whitman in Cent. Mag. (1911) Dec. 254/2 John's letter appeals to me..because of its uncompromising red-blooded espousal of the book. 1914E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xix. 257 Tarzan..did what no red-blooded man needs lessons in doing. 1923Daily Mail 28 Feb. 10 (Advt.), It's a rip-roaring, red-blooded yarn that no man or woman will be able to read unmoved. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vii. 159 The play was..about two red-blooded guys who are always scrapping. 1966Wodehouse Plum Pie i. 11 A redblooded loony doctor under the influence of the divine passion ought surely to have put the thing through months ago. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xxxiii. 387 To me he sounded like any red-blooded American businessman. |