red-handedadj.

Brit.

/ˌrɛdˈhandᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˈhændəd/

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

Etymology: < red adj. + handed adj. With sense 1c compare earlier red-hand adj. In sense 2 in zoological use after scientific Latin rufimanus, specific name (1818 or earlier with reference to a kind of monkey).The earlier red handed orchis n. and red handed satyrion n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d) show compounds of red with, respectively, handed orchis and handed sartyrion , denoting red-flowered plants with a handed (or palmate) tuber (see handed adj. 2).

a. In attributive use. That sheds or has shed blood; bloody, sanguinary. Now archaic.

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the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > eager to kill

sanguinolent1577

sanguineous1612

sanguisugous1615

sanguinary1623

sanguinarian1637

sanguinarious1654

sanguinous1663

sanguine1705

bloodhot1866

red-handed1879

red-hand1894

kill-crazy1942

shoot-to-kill1973

1759 R. Church in E. Spenser Faerie Queene II. iii. 47 He might, for memory of that daye's ruth, Be called Ruddymaine. [Note] i.e. Red-handed.

1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. iii. 135 (note) Let us die in defence of it [sc. the Bible]..rather than suffer the blood-thirsty papists, the red-handed idolaters, to snatch it out of our hands.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 221 Richard, called the Red-handed Wardour,..brought the castle and estate into the name of Wardour, in the year of God 1150.

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand (1883) 16 He had hitherto been..a red-handed slayer of men!

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders iv. 38 The evil gypsies of the hill—red-handed men.

1922 C. T. Winchester Old Castle 27 Under the very shadow of the English coast, Parma and his red-handed men were about their ghastly work.

1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 38/2 Do you think's it's a good idea, huh, to let a red-handed murderer off with a light sentence because he had a few drinks!

1962 Times 14 July 9/6 Eirik the Red, a red-headed, red-bearded, and occasionally red-handed man, was forced to leave the young republic of Iceland because of some killings.

1995 R. R. French Golden Yoke xxiii. 300 The ‘red-handed man’ from Kyidong was then brought in and placed in front of the judges' platform.

b. Chiefly in predicative use. That has just committed murder or homicide; having the hands stained with a victim's blood. Also figurative.

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the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [adjective]

murderous1535

Cainish?1541

murdering1550

murderish1550

Herodian1581

slaughterous1582

death-doing1590

carnal1597

assassinating1609

man-killing?1611

assassinous1623

cut-throat?a1625

Cain-like1656

red-handed1781

assassinative1841

manquelling1916

1781 T. Pennant Tour in Wales (1783) II. 16 Llawruddion, i.e. persons who came red-handed from a murder, were protected till composition could be made for their crimes.

1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. ii. iv. 49 'Tis Malice' eldest imp, the heir of hell, Red-handed Murther.

1861 Reynolds' Newsp. 24 Nov. Call a drum-head court-martial, and hang the murderer red-handed!

1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 175 While Hamilcar was returning redhanded from his desperate victory.

1885 M. Peacock in Academy 10 Oct. 239/3 When Abel in thine arms lay dead, And Cain red-handed turned and fled.

1914 Outlook 25 Apr. 895/1 He had killed a policeman in another city and fled red-handed to our gang.

a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1979) xv. 150 ‘I marvel at you, son of Earwen,’ said Thingol, ‘that you would come to the board of your kinsman thus red-handed from the slaying of your mother's kin.’

2003 S. Fallon & N. Bedford Hungary (Lonely Planet) (ed. 4) 188 The Lord Palatine of Hungary..caught the lady of the house..literally red-handed... Covered in blood.., the widow of the celebrated Black Captain was in the process of eating..one of her servant girls.

c. In predicative use. That is in the very act of committing a crime or misdeed; that is still bearing the obvious evidence of guilt. Esp. in to be caught (also taken) red-handed.Apparently first in Scott: the older Scottish term was red-hand adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [adjective] > and caught in the act

red-handc1430

deprehended1655

red-handed1819

society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [adjective] > with clear evidence of guilt

red-handc1430

red-handed1819

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > of body or parts of

foxtailed1774

silky1781

red-handed1819

cheek-pouched1844

cebocephalic1881

pomatic1889

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > violating the law > committing an offence > in the act of

red-handc1430

red-handed1819

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (intransitive)] > be arrested > be caught in the act

to be taken red-hand1535

to be caught (also taken) red-handed1819

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xi. 190 I did but tie one fellow, who was taken redhanded and in the fact, to the horns of a wild stag.

1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iv The fact of the property being found in our possession constituted a flagrans delictum—we were caught ‘red-handed’.

1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 306 A notorious thief was caught red-handed in the act of breaking open a lock.

1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love i. i. 8 They were unsuccessful politicos. They had been caught red-handed, with arms in their hands.

1964 Times 24 Sept. 14/6 There were occasions when he feared that he might be caught red-handed, and what would happen then?

1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) viii. 215 We pull in guys we've caught red-handed all the time, and..they tend not to put their hands up and say ‘it's a fair cop—you've got me bang to rights, guv'nor’.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 14/3 Hugh would dish off the wallets to him as soon as he hooked them, thus minimizing the risk of being caught red-handed.

2. Having red or reddish hands. Now chiefly Zoology: in the names of monkeys with reddish hands and feet (see Compounds).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > types of

fair-handed1505

steadfast1535

white-handed1598

hard-handed1600

horny1693

large-handed1712

red-handed1827

lily-handed1847

talon-like1883

1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 28 S[imia] M[ycetes] Rufimanus (the Red-handed Howler).

1857 A. M. Goodrich Myrtle & Heather II. 157 There are Eveleighs of all sizes..; clumsy, red-handed girls, who may yet be refined into beauties—and boys whose only ambition is to get a gun.

1869 R. B. Roosevelt Five Acres too Much 24 Four brawny, red-handed Irishmen, strong enough to pick her up and carry her if she resisted, were at the door.

1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 793/1 Among the crowds of red-handed sportsmen that Britain turns out..there occasionally appears one touched to finer issues.

1904 Out West Dec. 563 One of the husky, red-handed swains whom José had that evening so overshadowed with his slim, dark elegance.

1994 A. R. Siddons Downtown (1995) 8 She was..red-handed from daily washing of the family's clothes and dishes.

Compounds

red-handed howler n. (more fully red-handed howler monkey) a howler monkey, Alouatta belzebul, of northern Brazil, having black or dark brown fur with reddish hands, feet, and tail-tip; also called black and red howler.

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1827Red-handed Howler [see sense 2].

1967 J. R. Napier & P. H. Napier Handbk. Living Primates ii. 47 A. belzebul (Type species) Red-handed howler.

1996 N. Rowe Pict. Guide Living Primates 107/21 Red-handed howlers are the least well studied of the howlers.

red-handed tamarin n. a tamarin, Saguinus midas, of northern Brazil and the Guianas, which has black fur with reddish marbling on the lower back and (in the nominate subspecies) reddish or yellow hands and feet; also called Negro tamarin.

ΚΠ

1833 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Monkeys (Naturalist's Libr.: Mammalia I) 229 M[idas] Rufimanus, Red-handed Tamarin.

1967 J. R. Napier & P. H. Napier Handbk. Living Primates ii. 299 S. midas, Red-handed tamarin.

1995 Neotropical Primates 3 184 (title) Preliminary field study of the red-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas, in French Guiana.

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

单词	red-handed
释义	red-handedadj. Brit. /ˌrɛdˈhandᵻd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˈhændəd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., handed adj. Etymology: < red adj. + handed adj. With sense 1c compare earlier red-hand adj. In sense 2 in zoological use after scientific Latin rufimanus, specific name (1818 or earlier with reference to a kind of monkey).The earlier red handed orchis n. and red handed satyrion n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1e(d) show compounds of red with, respectively, handed orchis and handed sartyrion , denoting red-flowered plants with a handed (or palmate) tuber (see handed adj. 2). 1. a. In attributive use. That sheds or has shed blood; bloody, sanguinary. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > eager to kill sanguinolent1577 sanguineous1612 sanguisugous1615 sanguinary1623 sanguinarian1637 sanguinarious1654 sanguinous1663 sanguine1705 bloodhot1866 red-handed1879 red-hand1894 kill-crazy1942 shoot-to-kill1973 1759 R. Church in E. Spenser Faerie Queene II. iii. 47 He might, for memory of that daye's ruth, Be called Ruddymaine. [Note] i.e. Red-handed. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. iii. 135 (note) Let us die in defence of it [sc. the Bible]..rather than suffer the blood-thirsty papists, the red-handed idolaters, to snatch it out of our hands. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 221 Richard, called the Red-handed Wardour,..brought the castle and estate into the name of Wardour, in the year of God 1150. 1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand (1883) 16 He had hitherto been..a red-handed slayer of men! 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders iv. 38 The evil gypsies of the hill—red-handed men. 1922 C. T. Winchester Old Castle 27 Under the very shadow of the English coast, Parma and his red-handed men were about their ghastly work. 1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 38/2 Do you think's it's a good idea, huh, to let a red-handed murderer off with a light sentence because he had a few drinks! 1962 Times 14 July 9/6 Eirik the Red, a red-headed, red-bearded, and occasionally red-handed man, was forced to leave the young republic of Iceland because of some killings. 1995 R. R. French Golden Yoke xxiii. 300 The ‘red-handed man’ from Kyidong was then brought in and placed in front of the judges' platform. b. Chiefly in predicative use. That has just committed murder or homicide; having the hands stained with a victim's blood. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [adjective] murderous1535 Cainish?1541 murdering1550 murderish1550 Herodian1581 slaughterous1582 death-doing1590 carnal1597 assassinating1609 man-killing?1611 assassinous1623 cut-throat?a1625 Cain-like1656 red-handed1781 assassinative1841 manquelling1916 1781 T. Pennant Tour in Wales (1783) II. 16 Llawruddion, i.e. persons who came red-handed from a murder, were protected till composition could be made for their crimes. 1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. ii. iv. 49 'Tis Malice' eldest imp, the heir of hell, Red-handed Murther. 1861 Reynolds' Newsp. 24 Nov. Call a drum-head court-martial, and hang the murderer red-handed! 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 175 While Hamilcar was returning redhanded from his desperate victory. 1885 M. Peacock in Academy 10 Oct. 239/3 When Abel in thine arms lay dead, And Cain red-handed turned and fled. 1914 Outlook 25 Apr. 895/1 He had killed a policeman in another city and fled red-handed to our gang. a1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1979) xv. 150 ‘I marvel at you, son of Earwen,’ said Thingol, ‘that you would come to the board of your kinsman thus red-handed from the slaying of your mother's kin.’ 2003 S. Fallon & N. Bedford Hungary (Lonely Planet) (ed. 4) 188 The Lord Palatine of Hungary..caught the lady of the house..literally red-handed... Covered in blood.., the widow of the celebrated Black Captain was in the process of eating..one of her servant girls. c. In predicative use. That is in the very act of committing a crime or misdeed; that is still bearing the obvious evidence of guilt. Esp. in to be caught (also taken) red-handed.Apparently first in Scott: the older Scottish term was red-hand adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > guilt > [adjective] > and caught in the act red-handc1430 deprehended1655 red-handed1819 society > morality > moral evil > guilt > [adjective] > with clear evidence of guilt red-handc1430 red-handed1819 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > of body or parts of foxtailed1774 silky1781 red-handed1819 cheek-pouched1844 cebocephalic1881 pomatic1889 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > violating the law > committing an offence > in the act of red-handc1430 red-handed1819 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (intransitive)] > be arrested > be caught in the act to be taken red-hand1535 to be caught (also taken) red-handed1819 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xi. 190 I did but tie one fellow, who was taken redhanded and in the fact, to the horns of a wild stag. 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iv The fact of the property being found in our possession constituted a flagrans delictum—we were caught ‘red-handed’. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 306 A notorious thief was caught red-handed in the act of breaking open a lock. 1937 W. Lewis Revenge for Love i. i. 8 They were unsuccessful politicos. They had been caught red-handed, with arms in their hands. 1964 Times 24 Sept. 14/6 There were occasions when he feared that he might be caught red-handed, and what would happen then? 1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) viii. 215 We pull in guys we've caught red-handed all the time, and..they tend not to put their hands up and say ‘it's a fair cop—you've got me bang to rights, guv'nor’. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 14/3 Hugh would dish off the wallets to him as soon as he hooked them, thus minimizing the risk of being caught red-handed. 2. Having red or reddish hands. Now chiefly Zoology: in the names of monkeys with reddish hands and feet (see Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > types of fair-handed1505 steadfast1535 white-handed1598 hard-handed1600 horny1693 large-handed1712 red-handed1827 lily-handed1847 talon-like1883 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom V. 28 S[imia] M[ycetes] Rufimanus (the Red-handed Howler). 1857 A. M. Goodrich Myrtle & Heather II. 157 There are Eveleighs of all sizes..; clumsy, red-handed girls, who may yet be refined into beauties—and boys whose only ambition is to get a gun. 1869 R. B. Roosevelt Five Acres too Much 24 Four brawny, red-handed Irishmen, strong enough to pick her up and carry her if she resisted, were at the door. 1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 793/1 Among the crowds of red-handed sportsmen that Britain turns out..there occasionally appears one touched to finer issues. 1904 Out West Dec. 563 One of the husky, red-handed swains whom José had that evening so overshadowed with his slim, dark elegance. 1994 A. R. Siddons Downtown (1995) 8 She was..red-handed from daily washing of the family's clothes and dishes. Compounds red-handed howler n. (more fully red-handed howler monkey) a howler monkey, Alouatta belzebul, of northern Brazil, having black or dark brown fur with reddish hands, feet, and tail-tip; also called black and red howler. ΚΠ 1827Red-handed Howler [see sense 2]. 1967 J. R. Napier & P. H. Napier Handbk. Living Primates ii. 47 A. belzebul (Type species) Red-handed howler. 1996 N. Rowe Pict. Guide Living Primates 107/21 Red-handed howlers are the least well studied of the howlers. red-handed tamarin n. a tamarin, Saguinus midas, of northern Brazil and the Guianas, which has black fur with reddish marbling on the lower back and (in the nominate subspecies) reddish or yellow hands and feet; also called Negro tamarin. ΚΠ 1833 W. Jardine Nat. Hist. Monkeys (Naturalist's Libr.: Mammalia I) 229 M[idas] Rufimanus, Red-handed Tamarin. 1967 J. R. Napier & P. H. Napier Handbk. Living Primates ii. 299 S. midas, Red-handed tamarin. 1995 Neotropical Primates 3 184 (title) Preliminary field study of the red-handed tamarin, Saguinus midas, in French Guiana. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1759
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