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单词 red rag
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red ragn.

Brit. /rɛd ˈraɡ/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈræɡ/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and rag n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., rag n.2
Etymology: < red adj.+ rag n.2 With sense 3a compare Red Ensign n. 1. In sense 4, the disease is so called on account of the reddish appearance of plant parts affected by it; compare earlier rust n.1 6a.
1. slang. The tongue.
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the world > life > the body > speech organs > types of speech organ > [noun] > tongue
tonguec890
clap?c1225
clacka1592
red rag1605
clicket1611
clappera1627
filma1656
velvet1699
Manchester1819
1605 P. Woodward Fore-runner Bels Downefall v. §6. 56 To take away all cauilles, and to chamber the clapper of his runinge red rag.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. vii. 37 They say, a Womans red-Rag is well hung; But this is the dullest Muse that e're spake with a Tongue.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Shut your potatoe trap, and give your redrag a holiday.
1789 Times 14 Sept. 2/4 I can set the red rag of Charles Fox's lips in motion for a series of hours.
1820 W. Combe Second Tour Dr. Syntax xxx. 155 If your red rag did not show it, By your queer fancies I should know it.
1876 W. S. Gilbert Dan'l Druce i. 3 Stop that cursed red rag of yours, will you?
1908 W. H. Davies Autobiogr. Super Tramp (1927) xi. 90 He shook that red rag of his, and a continuous flow of speech ensued.
1992 R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit 23 Brewer's Bung,..a fairly common example for what is also known as the red rag.
2. A piece of red cloth used to provoke an animal, esp. a fowl or bull; (now chiefly figurative) a source of provocation or annoyance; something which excites violent indignation. Frequently in similative use, esp. in like a red rag to a bull.With bulls the stimulus appears to be the movement of the rag, as they are blind to the colour red.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > action of infuriating > that which infuriates
red rag1720
red flag1845
infuriant1953
1720 Independent Whig 31 Dec. Turkey-Cocks and Pheasants fly at a red Rag.
1724 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon Cato's Lett. IV. 158 Foxes are trapann'd by Traces, Pheasants by a red Rag, and other Birds by a Whistle; and the same is true of Mankind.
1809 Times 14 Mar. 1/3 Truth to a lawyer was like a red rag to a viper—it extracted his venom.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 365/2 The Bulls of Bashan are all roaring against him, and will toss and tear him to pieces like a red rag.
1837 C. G. F. Gore Mem. Peeress I. xi. 245 They [sc. the English] have no ardour for gratuitous quarrels; they do not fire up like a turkey-cock or a Frenchman, at sight of a red rag.
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xviii. 151 Jack will do for himself if he tells Wilmet her eyes are violet; it is like a red rag to a bull.
1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. v. 167 Shakesperian clowns are believed to be red rags to some experienced playwrights.
1931 A. Christie Sittaford Myst. xxix. 230 The old boy can hardly bear the sight of me. I'm like a red rag to a bull to him.
1965 Listener 25 Nov. 874/3 Professor Allen has adopted more an ‘inquiry programme’ style to examine some of the sacred cows and red rags of American life.
1979 T. Reese & J. Flint Trick 13 23 As the bull followed the muleta—the proverbial red rag—Gitanello killed it.
2004 Diva Mar. 44/2 My dad said I was useless, which was a red rag to me. I rode a winner for another trainer in an amateur ladies's derby, so he took me on.
3.
a. Nautical slang. Also with capital initials. = Red Ensign n. 1. Cf. red duster n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). Now historical.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > naval or merchant
pavilion1572
blue flag1613
jack1633
white ensign1676
Red Ensign1720
Blue Ensign1745
red flag1757
red rag1809
Union Jack1832
duster1904
red duster1914
1809 I. Pocock Yes or No? ii. iv. 34 No colour so glorious as the red rags of Old England flying over an enemy's Ensign.
1849 H. W. Herbert Dermont O'Brien x. 161 Answer me this shot speedily, and see if you cannot cut down their red rag yonder.
1910 D. W. Bone Brassbounder 129 Pluggin' a Dutchman's naethin'; it's th' ‘Rid Rag’ that Kelly's doon oan.
1929 D. J. Munro Roaring Forties 23 Up went Old Glory... We followed suit with the ‘Red Rag’ waving in defiance.
2003 R. N. Macomber Point of Honor (2005) ii. 47 Want me to send 'em some lead an' convince 'em to lower that damned red rag?
b. depreciative. = red flag n. 4a. Cf. rag n.2 4b.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > political
yellow badge1663
white rose1716
red flag1806
red rag1871
Hakenkreuz1922
swastika1932
yellow star1941
1871 Birmingham Daily Post 26 May 6/3 The Opera was carried, and the tricolour substituted for the red rag on its summit.
1884 M. E. Braddon Under Red Flag vii. 144 That red rag flying from the pinnacles, where the tricolour had so lately hung, was, to his mind, a symbol of man's equal rights, the up-rising of a down-trodden people.
1918 J. W. Hartmann & A. Tridon tr. L. Trotsky Proletarian Revol. in Russia iii. iv. 185 The Milyukovs magnanimously consented to call the ‘red rag’ a sacred emblem.
1991 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 16 Sept. 40 The old flag, which the chanting crowd called ‘the red rag’, was lowered and the republic's colors were hoisted above the seat of the Ukrainian government.
4. The plant disease rust, as affecting a cereal crop. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > rust disease or condition of having
rustOE
rustinga1398
canker?c1425
black rust1785
red gum1794
red rust1806
rust disease1816
red robin1821
red rag1841
crown rust1868
rustiness1882
stem rust1899
1841 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2 9 (heading) On the rust, red-rag, red-robin, red-gum.
1863 N. Brit. Rev. May 375 The leaf and chaff of the cereals are subject to a disease called rust, red-rag or red-robin (Uredo Rubigo).
1879 Globe Encycl. V. 452/1 Amongst farmers the names..red-rag, red-robin, and red-gum are current.

Derivatives

red-ˈraggish adj. highly provocative; cf. sense 2.
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the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [adjective] > causing indignation or resentment
rankling1631
offending1726
red-raggish1887
1887 Advance (Chicago) 30 June 403/4 Prohibition sounds a little harsh, and is red-raggish to many.
1931 Musical Times 72 517/2 Tacking ‘movement’ on to ‘Appreciation’ is rather red-raggish, I know.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 2 Sept. 6 This is a red-raggish thing to some of them, a whole set of left-wing lawyers..arguing that this whole thing was a police conspiracy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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