red-legn.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdlɛɡ/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌlɛɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., leg n.

Etymology: < red adj. + leg n. Compare earlier red-legged adj.

I. Senses relating to animals and plants.

1. In singular and plural. Any of various birds with red or orange legs; esp. the red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Alectoris > alectoris rufa (red-legged partridge)

French partridge1611

red-legged partridge1678

red partridge1704

bartavel1774

red-leg1798

Guernsey partridge1802

Frenchman1893

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank)

redshank1525

redling1655

pool-snite1661

pool snipe1678

red-legged horseman1678

red-legged sandpiper1785

red-leg1798

sand cock1804

snipe1829

redshank gambet1840

teuk1859

yelper1892

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris maritima (purple sandpiper)

stone-pecker1731

red-legged sandpiper1785

red-leg1798

purple sandpiper1802

rock snipe1835

rock sandpiper1842

rock-bird1917

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus ridibundus (black-headed gull)

pickmawa1525

peewit1678

pickmire1678

red-legged gull1785

black cap1802

pirr1818

red-leg1831

lapwing-gull1844

red-legged mew1862

1798 Trans. Linn. Soc. 4 40 Two others [sc. of a species of sandpiper] had been shot there the same season, and were called by the fishermen Red-legs.

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Red-legged This bird..is frequently known by the name of Red-legs.

?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. V. 372 The young birds [sc. black-headed gulls] in the neighbourhood of the river Thames, are thought good eating, and are called the red-legs.

1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 407 Red Legs, a name for the Red Shank.

1868 Times 21 Dec. 4/6 The red-legs commence laying earlier than the gray partridge.

1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London xiii. 256 The redshank, pool-snipe,..red-leg, red-legged horseman.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 July 10/1 I am sorry to say that I have shot many a little ‘red leg’ in my time.

1917 Birds of Amer. I. 268 Ruddy Turnstone...[Also called] Red-legs; Red-legged Plover.

1935 J. Goodwin Making Shoot v. 86 The theory has been propounded that the hen red-leg makes two nests and lays two clutches of eggs.

1987 Sporting Gun Mar. 33/3 Those breeding redlegs for release will be required to return to the pure French Partridge.

1992 Down East Feb. 15/1 I went..to wait for a..flight of Canadian-raised black duck, better known as redlegs to hunters.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 273/1 Redleg, a bird: the redshank.

2. In plural and singular. British regional. Either of two persicarias that characteristically have reddish stems, bistort ( Persicaria bistorta), and redshank or spotted persicaria ( P. maculosa). Cf. redshank n. 4a.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies

adderwortOE

arsesmarta1300

persicarya1400

persicaria?a1450

polygonya1500

buckwheat1548

polygonum1562

passions1568

bistort1578

oysterloit1578

goat's wheat1597

peachwort1597

plumbago1597

redshank1597

snake-weed1597

dragonwort1656

smartweed1787

patience dock1796

red-legs1820

passion dock1828

smartgrass1837

mud knotweed1845

jointweed1866

tear-thumb1866

pinch-weed1883

knotweed1884

sachaline1901

1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 422 The juices of some plants contain nitrate of potash; among others, I have detected it in the polygonum bistorta, called in English ‘red-legs’.

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 399 Red Legs. From the general redness of the stems. (1) Polygonum bistorta... (2) Polygonum Persicaria.

1933 A. W. Boyd Country Diary Cheshire Man (1946) i. 36 Persicaria, known as ‘red-leg’ to the Cheshire farmer (who has much ado to keep it down among his roots) has spread rapidly.

1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 126/1 Spotted Persicaria or Red-legs..can usually be easily recognized by the red stems and the dark blotch in the middle of the leaves.

1983 Times 1 Aug. 24/4 Spear thistles..often grow alongside spotted persicaria or redlegs, easily recognised by the dark mark like a bloodstain in the middle of the leaves.

3. A disease of frogs and other amphibians characterized by erythema of the ventral surface of the hind legs, often with skin ulceration and systemic haemorrhages, typically resulting from bacterial or fungal septicaemia. Also more fully red-leg disease.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of reptiles > [noun]

goitre1834

red-leg1905

mouth rot1946

1905 H. Emerson & C. Norris in Jrnl. Exper. Med. 7 34 The name often given to the disease in these letters is ‘red-leg’, and this is also the name used by the frog-catchers.

1942 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 44 673 (title) Further studies on Proteus hydrophilus, the etiological agent in ‘red leg’ disease of frogs.

1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor iii. 75 I sent them [sc. toads] away for post-mortem, and the report came back that they were suffering from an obscure disease called red-leg.

2003 Seminars Avian & Exotic Pet Med. 12 81/1 It is no longer sufficient to gaze at the underside of [a] sick frog for evidence of hyperemia to render a ubiquitous (and often incorrect) diagnosis of ‘red leg’.

II. Slang uses.

4. Caribbean (Barbados). Chiefly derogatory and offensive. Frequently with capital initial(s) and in plural. A poor white person; spec. one descended from white slaves or convicts transported to Barbados in the 17th cent. Cf. redshank n. 2a. [So called on account of the perceived colour of their skin. Compare quots. 1862, 1966, 2007.]

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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [noun] > other peoples of the West Indies

maroon1666

red-leg1817

Madagass1873

Garinagu1983

1817 J. Williamson Observ. W. India Islands in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 378/2 A ridge of hills,..is called Scotland, where a few of the descendants of a race of people transported in the time of Cromwell still live, called Redlegs.

1862 Independent 20 Mar. 2/6 The poor whites, or ‘red-legs’ as they are contemptuously called from the red hue of their naked legs, live in the more distant part of the island from Bridgetown.

1887 N. D. Davis Cavaliers & Roundheads Barbados 83 (note) The descendants of the old clansmen form a peculiar people at the present time, in Barbados, where they are known as Red Legs.

1935 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 June 12/7 The poor whites, or ‘red-legs’ of Barbados, descendants of the white slaves, convicts, and overseers, shipped there from the British Isles.

1966 Chicago Defender 1 Oct. 11/6 A few thousand white slaves..were sold to plantation owners in Holetown, Barbados... Since they were not black they were called ‘Red Legs’.

2007 Daily Mail 20 Apr. 59/4 To this day, people there [sc. Barbados] have Irish names and are known as Red Legs, because of their blistering fair skin.

a. U.S. A member of a group of Unionist guerrilla raiders based in Kansas during the U.S. Civil War. Now historical. [So called on account of the red leather leggings worn over their boots. Compare:

1885 L. W. Spring Kansas 285 An organization appeared known as ‘Red-legs’, from the fact that its members affected red morocco leggings.

]

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > support of Union in Civil War > supporter

unionist1815

Fed1861

federal1861

unioner1861

Union man1861

Tory1862

red-leg1863

1863 N.Y. Times 1 May 4/2 These slaves all go to Kansas. The very ‘Red Legs’ and other organizations in that state engaged in enticing them from Missouri, are said to be sending them down into Indian Country.

1863 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 9 May 49/1 Colonel Lynde is particularly admonished to suspend beyond resumption, sundry gentlemen who, from their Black Hearts, are called Red Legs.

1915 Washington Post 26 Dec. (Misc. section) 2/3 They were..held in no higher esteem than the Kansas red-leg or the Indian Territory horse-thief.

2002 B. Bridger Buffalo Bill & Sitting Bull iv. 78 As the leader of the outlaw ‘red leg militia’ Jennison took perverse pleasure burning houses..and terrorizing the border region.

b. U.S. Military. An artilleryman (in allusion to the red stripe formerly worn on the outside seams of artillerymens' trousers).

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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman

gunner1344

bombardier1562

cannoneer1562

artilleryman?1566

engineer1569

artillerist1579

bombarder1583

topchee1623

fireman1625

zumboorukchee1840

culverineer1881

red-leg1890

gun1896

horse gunner1896

society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman

gunner1344

cannoner1517

bombardier1562

cannoneer1562

artilleryman?1566

engineer1569

artillerist1579

bombarder1583

topchee1623

fireman1625

pyrobolist1696

zumboorukchee1840

culverineer1881

red-leg1890

gun1896

mud hog1918

1890 F. Remington Let. 31 Oct. (1988) 109 So you are a ‘bloomin’ artillery man—a red leg.

1900 P. Revere Cleveland in War with Spain 164 For once the ‘dough boys’ were envied by the ‘red legs’.

1927 Amer. Legion Monthly July 16 Reilly's redlegs..admired the advance guard of Bengal lancers.

1987 M. L. Lanning Only War we Had 130 More blood trails indicated the redlegs (Artillery) had also gotten a few.

2004 Field Artillery (U.S. Field Artillery Assoc.) (Nexis) 1 Mar. 9 The Army can no longer afford to have artillerymen just do artillery missions. So Redlegs also must be able to set up flash checkpoints, patrol,..and search operations.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	red-leg
释义	red-legn. Brit. /ˈrɛdlɛɡ/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌlɛɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., leg n. Etymology: < red adj. + leg n. Compare earlier red-legged adj. I. Senses relating to animals and plants. 1. In singular and plural. Any of various birds with red or orange legs; esp. the red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Alectoris > alectoris rufa (red-legged partridge) French partridge1611 red-legged partridge1678 red partridge1704 bartavel1774 red-leg1798 Guernsey partridge1802 Frenchman1893 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa totanus (red(-)shank) redshank1525 redling1655 pool-snite1661 pool snipe1678 red-legged horseman1678 red-legged sandpiper1785 red-leg1798 sand cock1804 snipe1829 redshank gambet1840 teuk1859 yelper1892 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris maritima (purple sandpiper) stone-pecker1731 red-legged sandpiper1785 red-leg1798 purple sandpiper1802 rock snipe1835 rock sandpiper1842 rock-bird1917 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus ridibundus (black-headed gull) pickmawa1525 peewit1678 pickmire1678 red-legged gull1785 black cap1802 pirr1818 red-leg1831 lapwing-gull1844 red-legged mew1862 1798 Trans. Linn. Soc. 4 40 Two others [sc. of a species of sandpiper] had been shot there the same season, and were called by the fishermen Red-legs. 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Red-legged This bird..is frequently known by the name of Red-legs. ?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. V. 372 The young birds [sc. black-headed gulls] in the neighbourhood of the river Thames, are thought good eating, and are called the red-legs. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 407 Red Legs, a name for the Red Shank. 1868 Times 21 Dec. 4/6 The red-legs commence laying earlier than the gray partridge. 1892 D. Jordan Within Hour of London xiii. 256 The redshank, pool-snipe,..red-leg, red-legged horseman. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 July 10/1 I am sorry to say that I have shot many a little ‘red leg’ in my time. 1917 Birds of Amer. I. 268 Ruddy Turnstone...[Also called] Red-legs; Red-legged Plover. 1935 J. Goodwin Making Shoot v. 86 The theory has been propounded that the hen red-leg makes two nests and lays two clutches of eggs. 1987 Sporting Gun Mar. 33/3 Those breeding redlegs for release will be required to return to the pure French Partridge. 1992 Down East Feb. 15/1 I went..to wait for a..flight of Canadian-raised black duck, better known as redlegs to hunters. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 273/1 Redleg, a bird: the redshank. 2. In plural and singular. British regional. Either of two persicarias that characteristically have reddish stems, bistort ( Persicaria bistorta), and redshank or spotted persicaria ( P. maculosa). Cf. redshank n. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > bistort and allies adderwortOE arsesmarta1300 persicarya1400 persicaria?a1450 polygonya1500 buckwheat1548 polygonum1562 passions1568 bistort1578 oysterloit1578 goat's wheat1597 peachwort1597 plumbago1597 redshank1597 snake-weed1597 dragonwort1656 smartweed1787 patience dock1796 red-legs1820 passion dock1828 smartgrass1837 mud knotweed1845 jointweed1866 tear-thumb1866 pinch-weed1883 knotweed1884 sachaline1901 1820 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts July 422 The juices of some plants contain nitrate of potash; among others, I have detected it in the polygonum bistorta, called in English ‘red-legs’. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 399 Red Legs. From the general redness of the stems. (1) Polygonum bistorta... (2) Polygonum Persicaria. 1933 A. W. Boyd Country Diary Cheshire Man (1946) i. 36 Persicaria, known as ‘red-leg’ to the Cheshire farmer (who has much ado to keep it down among his roots) has spread rapidly. 1960 S. Ary & M. Gregory Oxf. Bk. Wild Flowers 126/1 Spotted Persicaria or Red-legs..can usually be easily recognized by the red stems and the dark blotch in the middle of the leaves. 1983 Times 1 Aug. 24/4 Spear thistles..often grow alongside spotted persicaria or redlegs, easily recognised by the dark mark like a bloodstain in the middle of the leaves. 3. A disease of frogs and other amphibians characterized by erythema of the ventral surface of the hind legs, often with skin ulceration and systemic haemorrhages, typically resulting from bacterial or fungal septicaemia. Also more fully red-leg disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of reptiles > [noun] goitre1834 red-leg1905 mouth rot1946 1905 H. Emerson & C. Norris in Jrnl. Exper. Med. 7 34 The name often given to the disease in these letters is ‘red-leg’, and this is also the name used by the frog-catchers. 1942 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 44 673 (title) Further studies on Proteus hydrophilus, the etiological agent in ‘red leg’ disease of frogs. 1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor iii. 75 I sent them [sc. toads] away for post-mortem, and the report came back that they were suffering from an obscure disease called red-leg. 2003 Seminars Avian & Exotic Pet Med. 12 81/1 It is no longer sufficient to gaze at the underside of [a] sick frog for evidence of hyperemia to render a ubiquitous (and often incorrect) diagnosis of ‘red leg’. II. Slang uses. 4. Caribbean (Barbados). Chiefly derogatory and offensive. Frequently with capital initial(s) and in plural. A poor white person; spec. one descended from white slaves or convicts transported to Barbados in the 17th cent. Cf. redshank n. 2a. [So called on account of the perceived colour of their skin. Compare quots. 1862, 1966, 2007.] ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the West Indies > [noun] > other peoples of the West Indies maroon1666 red-leg1817 Madagass1873 Garinagu1983 1817 J. Williamson Observ. W. India Islands in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. Le Page Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 378/2 A ridge of hills,..is called Scotland, where a few of the descendants of a race of people transported in the time of Cromwell still live, called Redlegs. 1862 Independent 20 Mar. 2/6 The poor whites, or ‘red-legs’ as they are contemptuously called from the red hue of their naked legs, live in the more distant part of the island from Bridgetown. 1887 N. D. Davis Cavaliers & Roundheads Barbados 83 (note) The descendants of the old clansmen form a peculiar people at the present time, in Barbados, where they are known as Red Legs. 1935 N.Y. Amsterdam News 22 June 12/7 The poor whites, or ‘red-legs’ of Barbados, descendants of the white slaves, convicts, and overseers, shipped there from the British Isles. 1966 Chicago Defender 1 Oct. 11/6 A few thousand white slaves..were sold to plantation owners in Holetown, Barbados... Since they were not black they were called ‘Red Legs’. 2007 Daily Mail 20 Apr. 59/4 To this day, people there [sc. Barbados] have Irish names and are known as Red Legs, because of their blistering fair skin. 5. a. U.S. A member of a group of Unionist guerrilla raiders based in Kansas during the U.S. Civil War. Now historical. [So called on account of the red leather leggings worn over their boots. Compare: 1885 L. W. Spring Kansas 285 An organization appeared known as ‘Red-legs’, from the fact that its members affected red morocco leggings. ] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > support of Union in Civil War > supporter unionist1815 Fed1861 federal1861 unioner1861 Union man1861 Tory1862 red-leg1863 1863 N.Y. Times 1 May 4/2 These slaves all go to Kansas. The very ‘Red Legs’ and other organizations in that state engaged in enticing them from Missouri, are said to be sending them down into Indian Country. 1863 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 9 May 49/1 Colonel Lynde is particularly admonished to suspend beyond resumption, sundry gentlemen who, from their Black Hearts, are called Red Legs. 1915 Washington Post 26 Dec. (Misc. section) 2/3 They were..held in no higher esteem than the Kansas red-leg or the Indian Territory horse-thief. 2002 B. Bridger Buffalo Bill & Sitting Bull iv. 78 As the leader of the outlaw ‘red leg militia’ Jennison took perverse pleasure burning houses..and terrorizing the border region. b. U.S. Military. An artilleryman (in allusion to the red stripe formerly worn on the outside seams of artillerymens' trousers). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > artilleryman gunner1344 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 horse gunner1896 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > artilleryman gunner1344 cannoner1517 bombardier1562 cannoneer1562 artilleryman?1566 engineer1569 artillerist1579 bombarder1583 topchee1623 fireman1625 pyrobolist1696 zumboorukchee1840 culverineer1881 red-leg1890 gun1896 mud hog1918 1890 F. Remington Let. 31 Oct. (1988) 109 So you are a ‘bloomin’ artillery man—a red leg. 1900 P. Revere Cleveland in War with Spain 164 For once the ‘dough boys’ were envied by the ‘red legs’. 1927 Amer. Legion Monthly July 16 Reilly's redlegs..admired the advance guard of Bengal lancers. 1987 M. L. Lanning Only War we Had 130 More blood trails indicated the redlegs (Artillery) had also gotten a few. 2004 Field Artillery (U.S. Field Artillery Assoc.) (Nexis) 1 Mar. 9 The Army can no longer afford to have artillerymen just do artillery missions. So Redlegs also must be able to set up flash checkpoints, patrol,..and search operations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1798
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