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单词 redbone
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redbonen.

Brit. /ˈrɛdbəʊn/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌboʊn/
Forms: also with capital initial(s).
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., bone n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + bone n.1
U.S.
1. regional (chiefly southern). A variety or breed of American hound with a predominantly red coat, developed from foxhounds esp. to hunt raccoons; a dog of this variety or breed. More fully redbone coonhound. Cf. coonhound n. at coon n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > unspecified or other types of
talbot1562
kibble1590
saluki1809
redbone1886
Plott1904
blue-tick1922
blue-tick coonhound1922
Basenji1933
Illyrian hound1964
Pharaoh hound1967
1886 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 14 Jan. The Oldtown dogs are fox hounds of the Redbone breed, trained for several generations to hunt men.
1919 W. H. Miller Amer. Hunting Dog iii. 57 Two strains are well known, the Redbone, an ancient breed of Southern coon-hound, and the J. E. Williams dogs.
1975 E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 38 I had a good stock a' dogs—blue tick and redbone mix.
2003 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Dec. b5/3 Austin..holds a picture..of Ripper, his grandfather's pedigree redbone coonhound.
2.
a. regional (chiefly southern). A person of mixed racial descent, spec. one believed to have a degree of North American Indian ancestry and regarded as belonging to a distinct social group. Frequently derogatory (now offensive).
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person
mongrel1542
of (the) half blood1697
half-caste1758
half-breed1760
lip-lap1798
quarter-breed1821
half-blood1826
half-and-half1827
quarter-blood1827
quarter-caste1859
mixed blooda1862
brown1862
miscegen1864
yellowbelly1867
breed1870
redbone1890
miscegenate1898
high yellow1910
samba1958
lightie1991
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person white and Amerindian
mestizo1598
topass1680
half-breed1760
Paulist1772
bois brûlé1805
mameluco1809
metis1816
Paulista1817
mestino1842
ladino1877
redbone1890
mestizaje1943
cholo1959
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person black and Amerindian
sambo1748
zambo1819
redbone1890
1890 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Dec. 865/2 There is a singular race of people in South Carolina called the ‘Redbones’.
1908 Field & Stream May 693/1 I engaged an old ‘red bone’ to act as my guide. Legrand..was really a Creole, but was said to have a cross of Indian blood, just enough to cause him to detect signs which escape the common eye.
1950 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 9 Apr. 4/5 These Red Bones with skin darker than whites' and lighter than Negroes'.
1982 W. D. Campbell Glad River i. 9 If you wanted to start a fight you could call one of them a Redbone to his face. And if you really wanted to start a fight you could call one of them a nigger.
1998 J. L. Burke Sunset Limited (1999) 45 Harpo Delahoussey..ran a ramshackle nightclub for redbones (people who are part French, black, and Indian).
b. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). A black person (esp. a woman) having light-coloured, reddish-tinted skin. Also as adj. (attributive). Cf. yellow bone n. and adj. at yellow adj. and n. Compounds 2a.Sometimes offensive, esp. outside African-American usage.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > light-skinned
white Negro1766
yellowskin1831
yellow1873
pink toe1930
light-skin1935
peola1938
play-white1952
redbone1983
lightie1991
1983 Success with Words (Reader's Digest) 88/1 Red-bone, ‘light-colored black woman'.
1994 N. McCall Makes me wanna Holler (1995) vi. 42Redbone bitches’, light-skinned women who looked almost white, were considered most desirable.
2012 @bryanamaste 13 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Redbones are more Indian and black mixed or blasian. They have more of a darkish red but lightskin tone.
2017 @SneakerHeadSkee 19 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) All pretty redbones or light skin girls love brown skin/dark skin dudes lets argue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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