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单词 red horse
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red horsen.

Brit. /ˈrɛd ˌhɔːs/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˌhɔrs/
Forms: 1700s– red horse, 1800s red hoss.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., horse n.
Etymology: < red adj. + horse n.With the form red hoss compare hoss n.
North American.
1.
a. Any of various North American suckers (freshwater fishes of the family Catostomidae), of the genus Moxostoma or related genera, having the lower fins (and often the dorsal fin and tail) bright red or orange. Frequently with distinguishing word. Also more fully red horse fish, red horse sucker.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Catostomidae (suckers) > unspecified and miscellaneous types
sucker1753
jumping-mullet1767
buffalo-fish1774
buffalo1789
red horse1796
sucking carp1804
carpsucker1828
hogmolly1877
hogsucker1877
suckerel1888
hog mullet1889
1796 B. Hawkins Let. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. IX. 38 This is the most valuable creek known here for..trout, perch, rock, red horse.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 663 The rivers are well stocked with..trout, perch, cat-fish, buffaloe-fish, red horse, eels, &c.
1866 Athletic Sports for Boys 142 For bait you can use minnows, large chubs, small suckers, red-horse, or frogs.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 437 The ‘Red Horses’ belong to the genus Moxostoma and the related Minytrema and Placopharynx, and usually have their lower fins bright red.
1927 R. H. Early Campbell Chron. & Family Sketches 132 Red horse fish from the Staunton run up into Otter river.
1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher 11 He showed us a ‘red horse’ swimming among the roots of a willow.
1992 Canad. Geographic Mar. 23 There are even a few [freshwater fishes] exclusive to the Richelieu River basin, like the copper redhorse, a shy member of the sucker family.
1996 Vermont Life Autumn 92/2 On this short river he has landed..bluegills, crappies, red-horse suckers, river suckers, [etc.].
b. U.S. regional (southern). The red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. rare.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > genus Sciaena > sciaena ocellata (red drum)
bass1530
drummer1615
drum1649
red drum1709
drummer fish1725
red fish1763
red sciaena1803
red bass1837
spot1864
school bass1869
channel bass1873
spotfish1875
masooka1884
red horse1884
red1958
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 372 The ‘Red Fish’ and ‘Red Horse’ of Florida and the Gulf States.
1909 Outing Nov. 203/2 At the mouth of the James River the red drum is called the drum;..on the Indian River, the red horse.
1966 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. IV. 524/2 [Kinds of saltwater fish..good to eat:] Redhorse.
2. U.S. A nickname for: a native of Kentucky. Now rare (historical in later use).
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states
Marylander1640
Rhode Islander1665
Jerseyman1679
Pennsylvanian1685
Carolinian1705
Georgian1732
Marylandian1750
Jersey blue1758
Californian1762
Louisianian1775
Mississippian1775
Acadian1776
Vermonteer1778
Kentuckian1779
Vermontese1783
Indianian1784
Cohee1786
Kentuck1789
Virginian1797
Michiganian1813
Michigan1814
Tennessean1815
Ohioan1818
Illinoian1819
Ohian1819
Missourian1820
buckeye1823
Vermonter1825
Hoosier1826
red horse1833
sucker1833
wolverine1833
puke1834
corn-cracker1835
Texian1835
Alaskan1836
Texan1837
Michigander1838
Oregonian1838
Rackensack1839
Arkansian1844
badger1844
Bay Stater1845
Lone Star Stater1845
Oregonese1845
tar-boiler1845
weasel1845
web foot1845
Alabaman1846
Iowanc1848
Arkansan1851
Minnesotian1851
Washingtonian1852
Minnesotan1854
Nebraskan1854
Kansian1855
Utahan1855
Floridan1856
fly-up-the-creek1857
Dakotian1861
Coloradan1862
Coloradian1862
Texican1863
Coloradoan1864
tarheel1864
Cajun1868
Kansan1868
Montanian1869
Floridian1870
mudcat1872
New Jerseyan1872
Arkansawyer1874
longhorn1876
Mainer1879
New Jerseyite1885
prune picker1892
Hawaiian1893
Oklahoman1894
Tex1909
blue hen's chicken1921
Tejano1925
Geechee1926
Arkie1927
sooner1930
wyomingite1930
New Mexican1940
Okie1948
1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 26 Dec. in N.-Y. Amer. (1834) 22 Feb. 2/1 The spokesman was evidently a ‘red-horse’ from Kentucky.
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xix. 289 These last have all nicknames. There's the hoosiers of Indiana,..the red horses of Kentucky.
1859 in L. R. Hafen & A. W. Hafen Rep. from Colorado (1961) 17 Here they come..from every place—Hoosiers, Suckers, Corn crackers, Buckeyes, Red-horses.
1938 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 25 28 Travelers soon became suspicious of the superlative language and vaunt of the Kentucky ‘red-horse’, the Ohio ‘buckeye’, and the Illinois ‘sucker’.
3. slang (originally Military). Corned beef.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat
Martinmas meatc1450
Martinmas beefc1475
powder beef1479
Martinmas flesh1656
Irish horse1748
bully1753
junk1762
salt junk1792
salt horse1836
red horse1864
hunter's beef1879
bullamacow1887
Jack1890
macon1939
1864 I. Jackson Let. 28 June in Some of Boys (1960) 184 I must quit writing and eat supper, which is coffee & Red Hoss.
1905 J. Bowe With 13th Minnesota in Philippines 24 Of bean-soup, hard-tack, and red horse..we have had our fill.
1920 W. B. Ellington Company ‘A’ 23rd Engineers 27 We have red horse and rice pudding for dinner.
1952 C. Sandburg Always Young Strangers 416 Cook Metcalf over a long afternoon had broiled a tinned beef we named ‘Red Horse’.
1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 262 There is also diner slang, shouted colorfully from counterman to cook: ketchup is ‘red lead’, tomato soup ‘red noise’, and corned beef ‘red horse’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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