单词 | redbone |
释义 | redbonen. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 42 ‘Redbone 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). < n.1886 |
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