• REB
n. 1. a southern soldier; an inhabitant of the Confederate States of America …US Civil War usage
n. 2. any poor, rural, White southerner …1978 US sl.
• REBARBATIVE
adj. repellent, forbidding; unattractive, dull; unpleasant, objectionable …1892 rare
• REBAT
vb. to retort …1871 Sc.
• REBBISH
adj. poor, White, and racist …1945 US sl.
• REBBLE
n. a revel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REBBY
n. a racist White man …1993 Amer. dial., African-American usage
• REBEC(K)
n. an old woman: in reproach …1383 colloq.
• REBEL
n. 1. a southern soldier; an inhabitant of the Confederate States of America …US Civil War usage
n. 2. a revel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. of food: to rise in the stomach …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REBELLANT
adj. rebellious …1432-50 obs. rare
n. a rebel …1586 obs. rare
• REBELLION
n. the American Civil War …1862 Amer. dial.
• REBELLIOUS HENCHMAN
n. the penis …2003 Brit. sl.
• REBEL TRAP
n. in pool: the largest regulation-size table …1990 US sl.
• REBEL WAR
n. the American Civil War …1943 Amer. dial.
• REBEL YELL
n. the Confederate battle cry; a prolonged, high-pitched cry issued before combat …US Civil War usage
• REBIG
vb. to rebuild …1792 Sc. obs.
• REBINE
n. a great stroke on man or beast …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
• REBOANT
adj. 1830chiefly literary and poetic usage – resounding, reverberating; loudly echoing
• REBOUND
vb. 1. 1883 Sc. – to vomit; to be squeamish, to have an inclination to vomit
vb. 2. Bk1904 Sc. – to repent
• REBUKOUS
adj. given to rebuke, full of rebuke, containing rebuke, rebuking, chiding …1494 obs.
• REBUNCTIOUS
adj. stubborn or unmanageable …1820 Sc. obs.
• RECANT
vb. to revive from debility or sickness …Bk1904 Sc.
• RECEIPT
n. 1. the harbouring or entertainment of outlaws or criminals; a shelter …1631 Sc.
n. 2. the receiving of stolen goods …1681 Sc.
n. 3. a receiver of stolen goods …1773 Sc.
n. 4. accommodation, capacity …1844 Sc.
n. 5. a recipe …1847 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to receive stolen goods …1685 Sc.
vb. 2. to harbour or shelter an outlaw or criminal …1715 Sc.
vb. 3. to receive, to welcome, to give reception to …1791 Sc.
• RECEIPTER
n. one who shelters or assists outlaws or criminals …1681 Sc.
• RECEIPT-OF-CUSTOM
n. the female pudendum …Bk1903 sl.
• RECEIVER-GENERAL
n. 1. a boxer giving nothing for what he gets …Bk1903 pugilists’ sl.
n. 2. a prostitute …Bk1903 sl.
• RECEIVE THE CANVASS
vb. to be dismissed; to ‘get the sack’ …1652 colloq.
• RECESS
n. a prison lavatory …1950 criminals’ sl.
• RECITATION BENCH
n. a bench, esp. at the front of a one-room schoolhouse, for students being examined orally …1841 Amer. dial.
• RECITATION SEAT
n. 1. a bench, esp. at the front of a one-room schoolhouse, for students being examined orally …1850 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a seat in the front of a church for people concerned about their spiritual well-being …1969 Amer. dial.
• RECITING BENCH
n. a bench, esp. at the front of a one-room schoolhouse, for students being examined orally …1932 Amer. dial.
• RECK
vb. 1. to take heed of; to care for, to regard …1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to reckon, to deem, to think …1791 Sc.
• RECKERMEMBER
vb. to remember …1887 Amer. dial.
• RECKLEYS
adv. directly, instantly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RECKLIN
n. 1. the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a reckoning, a bill, account …1886 Eng. dial.
• RECKLING
adj. reckless …BK1904 Eng. dial.
n. the youngest or smallest of a brood or litter; the youngest or weakest of a family, a weakling …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RECKLINS
adv. directly …1866 Eng. dial.
• RECKOMAND
vb. to reprimand …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RECKOMEMBER
vb. to remember …1934 Amer. dial.
• RECKONING
n. 1. arithmetic …1877 Eng. dial.
n. 2. comprehension, understanding, knowledge …1891 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the time or process of paying wages, payday …1895 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a balancing of accounts …Bk1901 Eng. dial.
• RECKON ONE’S REAM PENNIES
vb. to confess one’s faults …Bk1903 sl.
• RECKON UP
vb. to slander, to backbite …19C sl.
• RECOGNIZATE
vb. to recognize …1891 Amer. dial.
• RECOGNIZATION
n. recognition …1934 Amer. dial.
• RECOLLECTMENT
n. the power of remembering …1936 Amer. dial.
• RECOLLECTS
n. memory ..1875 Eng. dial.
• RECOMEMBER
vb. to recollect, to remember …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• RE-COMING
n. a return …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RECOMMEMB’ANCE
n. memory …1899 Amer. dial.
• RECOMMEMBER
vb. to remember …1911 Amer. dial.
• RECOMMEND
n. a recommendation …1804 Amer. dial.
• RECRAYED
adj. 1. cowardly, craven …a1330 obs.
adj. 2. slothful, lazy …1340 obs. rare
• RECREANT
n. a disloyal or cowardly person …14C
• REC ROOM
n. a room in a house used by the family for relaxation and entertainment …20C US & Can. colloq.
• RECROOTS
n. boots …M19 rhyming sl.
• RECRUITING SERVICE
n. robbing on the highway …Bk1903 sl.
• RECRUITS
n. boots …M19 rhyming sl.
• RECT
n. to direct …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RECTAL RANGER
n. a male homosexual …1990s sl.
• RECTANGULOUS
adj. rectangular …1680 obs.
• RECTIFY
vb. 1. to damage; to break down; to destroy …1909 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to have anal intercourse …1970s US homosexual sl.
• RECTOR
n. 1. a poker kept only for show …L19 sl.
n. 2. the bottom half of a sliced teacake, which received the most butter …L19 sl.
• RECTOR OF THE FEMALES
n. the penis …1647-80 sl.
• RECTUM RANGER
n. a male homosexual …1990s sl.
• RECULE
vb. to recoil, to retreat, to revert …1667 Sc. obs.
• RECUMBENTIBUS
n. a knockdown blow …c1400 obs.
• RECUSATIVE
adj. that tends to refuse or prohibit; denying, refusing, negative …1660 obs. rare
• RED
adj. 1. golden, made of gold …17C sl.
adj. 2. bloody …1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. communist, socialist, left-wing …M19 sl.
adj. 4. in cash (rather than paper) money …L19 sl.
adj. 5. light-skinned …1920s African-American sl.
adj. 6. having red or ginger hair …1930s Aust. sl.
adj. 7. used of an impoverished, bigoted White Southerner …1960s US sl.
adj. 8. conservative, strait-laced …1970s US students’ sl.
adj. 9. intoxicated by drugs …1990s W. Indies sl.
n. 1. a soldier …18C sl.
n. 2. a smoked herring …19C sl.
n. 3. a cent, a penny …M19 US sl.
n. 4. gold, thus money, i.e. sovereigns …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
n. 5. an anarchist or republican, a Russian Bolshevik, or a Communist or extreme socialist …1851 sl., derogatory
n. 6. a red-headed person, esp. as a nickname or direct address …L19 sl.
n. 7. chili …20C US sl.
n. 8. a person with a lighter skin colour from brown to near-White, but not pure Black …1920s W. Indies sl.
n. 9. a red-coloured tablet of the barbiturate Seconal …1967 drug culture sl.
n. 10. the yolk of an egg …1970 Amer. dial. Black usage
n. 11. a difficult or problematic situation …1990s W. Indies sl.
• RED-ACE
n. 1. the female pubic hair …M19 sl.
n. 2. the vagina …M19 sl.
• RED-AITIN
n. a savage, barbarous person …1610 Sc.
• REDAMANCY
n. the act of loving in return …1656 obs. rare
• REDAMATION
n. 1658 obs. rare – the act of loving in return; reciprocal or mutual love
• REDAMBULATE
vb. 1623 obs. rare – to walk back
• RED-APPLER
n. 1. Bk1892 Amer. sl. – a toady
n. 2. Bk1942 Amer. college sl. – a favoured student
• REDARGUE
vb. 1768 Sc. – to accuse, to blame
• RED AS A FOX’S TAIL
adj. quite red …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• RED AS A SPANKED BABY’S ASS
adj. very red …1945 Amer. sl.
• RED AS MARTLESHAM LION
adj. very red …1892 Eng. dial.
• RED-ASS
adj. light-skinned …1920s African-American sl.
• RED AS YATLIN-BLOOD
adj. used of anything of a bright red colour …Bk1905 Sc.
• REDBAIT
vb. in politics: to harass communists or people with left-wing beliefs
• RED BAND
n. a privileged prisoner, allowed to carry out special duties …1950 sl.
• RED BIDDY
n. cheap red wine fortified with methylated spirits; inferior red wine …1928 colloq.
• RED BIRD
n. a red-coloured tablet of the barbiturate Seconal …1969 drug culture sl.
• RED-BLOODED
adj. vigorous, virile …1836 colloq.
• RED BOARD
n. a railway stop signal …1929 US sl.
• RED BONE
n. a person of mixed race, esp. one believed to be partly American Indian and belonging to a distinct social group in parts of South Carolina, Louisiana, and eastern Texas …1891 Amer. dial.
• RED-CAP
n. 1. a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …1802 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. (as ‘redcap’) a military police officer …1919 Brit. colloq.
n. 3. (as ‘redcap’) a porter at an airport station …20C US & Can.
• RED-CAPER
n. rum when taken in tea …Bk1904 Eng. dial., jocular usage
• RED CENT
n. any money; a trivial amount of money …1839 sl., orig. US
• RED-CLOSE
n. the throat …Bk1903 sl.
• RED CLOVER STATE
n. Vermont …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RED-COAT
n. 1. formerly, a British soldier …c1485 sl.
n. 2. (usually as ‘redcoat’) the bedbug …1911 Amer. dial.
• RED-COCK
n. incendiary fire …1815 Sc.
• RED-COMB
n. a large-toothed comb …Bk1904 Sc.
• RED-COWL
n. a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …1816 Sc.
• RED CREEK
n. menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• REDD
adj. 1. afraid, frightened …1721 Sc.
adj. 2. ready, willing, prepared …1790 Sc.
adj. 3. clear, distinct, fluent …1836 Sc.
adj. 4. active, able to accomplish much …1866 Sc.
n. 1. a will, testament …1853 Eng. dial.
n. 2. rubbish, litter, remains …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. energy, speed, ability to work …1892 Sc.
n. 4. the act of setting in order, tidying, cleaning; arrangement, settlement …1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a clearance, the removal of an obstruction or annoyance; separation …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to disentangle, to unravel; to clear up, to sort …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to dress or comb the hair …1721 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to quell, to subdue a fray; to compose a quarrel; to separate combatants …1766 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to set in order, to arrange; to prepare; to tidy, to clean up …1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to correct, to set right; to rebuke, to scold; to sum up the faults of, to criticize …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to rid, to free …1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REDDEN UP
vb. to tidy up a house …1926 Amer. dial.
• REDDER
n. one who endeavours to settle a dispute or to part combatants …1631 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REDDER’S-BLOW
n. a blow which falls upon one who interferes in a quarrel or tries to part combatants …1802 Sc.
• REDDER’S-LICK
n. a blow which falls upon one who interferes in a quarrel or tries to part combatants …1820 Sc.
• REDDER’S-PART
n. a blow which falls upon one who interferes in a quarrel or tries to part combatants …1802 Sc.
• RED DEVIL
n. 1. a type of Italian hand-grenade …1944 sl.
n. 2. a hot pepper …1950 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a red-coloured tablet of the barbiturate Seconal …1967 drug culture sl.
• THE RED DEVIL
n. menstruation …1954 Amer. dial.
• REDDIES
n. money; usually applied to bank notes …1937 sl.
• REDDING
n. a combing the hair …1878 Amer. dial.
• REDDING-BLOW
n. a blow which falls upon one who interferes in a quarrel or tries to part combatants …1790 Sc.
• REDDING-COMB
n. a large-toothed comb …1812 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
• REDDING-STROKE
n. a blow which falls upon one who interferes in a quarrel or tries to part combatants …1737 Sc.
• REDDLIN
n. a riddle, a puzzle, a conundrum …1873 Eng. dial.
• REDDOCK
n. the robin redbreast …1777 Eng. dial.
• REDD OFF
vb. to clear off a table, esp. after a meal …1940 Amer. dial.
• RED-DOUP
n. a bee …1870 Sc.
• REDD OUT
vb. to comb one’s hair; to groom oneself …1895 Amer. dial.
• REDD THE CRAP
vb. to scold …Bk1904 Sc.
• REDD THE TOPPIN
vb. to pull the hair …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REDD UP
vb. 1. to put in order, to tidy up; to clean up an apartment or house …1867 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to clear off a table, esp. after a meal …1942 Amer. dial.
• THE RED DUSTER
n. the red ensign. the flag of the British merchant navy …1925 sl.
• REDD-UP
adj. tidy, neat, put in order …1838 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• REDDY
n. cash …1688 sl.
• REDDYING COMB
n. a comb for ordering the hair …1887 Amer. dial.
• REDE
adj. 1. afraid, frightened …1721 Sc.
adj. 2. advised; warned; aware, certain …1791 Sc.
adj. 3. fierce, impetuous, wild; excited; drunk …1843 Sc.
n. the ghost or ‘double’ of a living person …1930 Amer. dial.
• RED-EEL
n. a term of contempt …Bk1903 sl
• REDEEM
vb. to consider; to give as opinion …1894 Eng. dial.
• REDELESS
adj. helpless, unwilling to take advice …1880 Eng. dial. obs.
• REDESHIP
n. confidence, trust; dependence, trustworthiness, reliability …1829 Eng. dial.
• REDESMAN
n. an adviser …1841 Ireland obs.
• RED-ETIN
n. a savage, barbarous person …1610 Sc.
• RED-EYE
n. 1. low-quality liquor; cheap whisky …1819 Amer. dial.
n. 2. ketchup …World War I sl.
n. 3. (as ‘redeye’) a hobgoblin used to threaten children and make them behave; a nursery bugbear …c1966 Amer. dial.
n. 4. (as ‘redeye’) the devil …1968 Amer. dial.
n. 5. (as ‘red eye’) a long, hard stare, usually directed at a person …1994 Amer. dial.
• REDEYE AND BLOODYBONES
n. a hobgoblin used to threaten children and make them behave; a nursery bugbear …c1966 Amer. dial.
• RED-EYED
adj. crazy, furious, angry, mad …1935 Amer. dial.
• RED-EYE GRAVY
n. a reddish, usually unthickened, gravy made from the drippings of ham or other cured meat …1945 Amer. dial.
• RED-EYE JUICE
n. low-quality liquor; cheap whisky …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-EYE SOUR
n. whisky and lemon …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-EYEWHISKY
n. low-quality liquor; cheap whisky …1851 Amer. dial.
• RED-FISHER
n. a salmon-fisher …1856 Eng. dial.
• RED-FLANNEL
n. the tongue …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-FUSTIAN
n. 1. claret …1834 sl.
n. 2. port …1834 sl.
• REDGE
n. 1. gold: manufactured or specie; in latter case specifically, a guinea …c1696 sl.
n. 2. money … Bk1903 sl.
• REDGE-CULLY
n. a goldsmith …1665 sl.
• RED-GRATE
n. a tavern or brothel, or both combined …c1622 sl.
• RED GRAVY
n. 1. a reddish, usually unthickened, gravy made from the drippings of ham or other cured meat …1939 Amer. dial.
n. 2. tomato sauce …1968 Amer. dial.
• REDGUT
n. a sausage …1910s US criminals’ sl.
• REDHAMMER
n. a woodpecker …1968 Amer. dial.
• RED-HANDED
adj. 1. active, neat …1820 Sc.
adj. 2. murderous, applied to one who has shed blood …1898 Sc.
adj. 3. having little to do …Bk1904 Sc.
• RED HAT
n. an army staff officer …1916 Brit. sl.
• RED-HEAD
n. fiery whisky …c1852 sl.
• REDHEAD-BLOODYBONES
n. a spectre, a hobgoblin; a nursery bugbear …1966 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEADED
adj. angry …1967 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEADED STEPCHILD
n. someone or something that is unwanted or badly treated …1941 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEADED WOODCOCK
n. a pileated woodpecker …1845 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEADED WOOD HEN
n. a pileated woodpecker …1986 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEAD WOODCOCK
n. a pileated woodpecker …1864 Amer. dial.
• RED-HEATER
n. a radiator …1896 Amer. dial.
• RED-HERRING
n. a soldier …Bk1903 sl.
• RED HORSE
n. 1. corned beef …1864 sl.
n. 2. (usually as ‘Red-Horse’) a native of Kentucky …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-HOT
adj. 1. excellent, perfect, magnificent …1866 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. feeling sexual desire, lustful …1887 sl.
adj. 3. eager, anxious, desirous …1896 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. unfair, unreasonable …1896 Aust. sl.
adj. 5. wild, dissipated …1897 Eng. dial.
adj. 6. violent, extreme …Bk1903 sl.
adj. 7. lively, peppy, pleasing …1927 Amer. sl.
adj. 8. resplendently beautiful; gorgeous …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 9. impatient …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 10. filled with scandal …1950 Amer. sl.
n. a frankfurter or hot dog …1892 US sl.
• RED-HOT MAMA
n. 1. a sexually attractive woman …1925 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a girlfriend or female lover …1936 US sl.
• RED-HOT STUFF
n. something excellent …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RED INK
n. cheap red wine …1919 sl., chiefly US
• RED IN THE COMB
adj. 1. eager to get married …1906 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. sexually excited …1929 Amer. dial.
• RED JEANS
n. long underwear, long johns …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-KETTLE
n. a gold watch …1879 sl.
• RED KING
n. menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• REDLAND
n. Russia …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• RED-LANE
n. the throat …1566 sl.
• RED LANTERN OIL
n. a non-existent substance used as the basis of a practical joke …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-LATTICE
n. an ale-house sign …1596 sl.
• RED LEAD
n. ketchup …1918 naval sl.
• RED LEG
n. a member of a racially mixed group of people living in Orangeburg County, South Carolina …1945 Amer. dial.
• RED LEGS
n. an artilleryman …1900 US sl.
• RED-LETTER DAY
n. a happy day or lucky occasion …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-LETTER DAYS
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-LETTER MAN
n. a Roman Catholic …Bk1903 sl.
• REDLIGHT
n. a traffic light of any colour …1957 Amer. dial.
• REDLINS
adv. 1. perhaps, probably …Bk1904 Sc.
adv. 2. readily …Bk1904 Sc.
• RED LION LANE
n. the throat …1865 sl.
• RED LIQUOR
n. low grades of spirituous liquor …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• RED LOT
n. a gold watch …B1933 sl.
• RED-MAD
adj. raging mad, distracted, insane; furious; eager …1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RED-MAN
n. 1. a sprite or elf supposed to haunt especially old castles or ruins …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 2. (as ‘red man’) a hobgoblin that is used to threaten children and make them behave; a nursery bugbear …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 3. (as ‘red man’) Seconal …1980s drug culture sl.
vb. 1. to punish by mob action or by vigilante organization …1975 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to treat unfairly …2000 Amer. dial.
• REDMENT
n. the act of putting in order, a settlement …1892 Sc.
• RED-MOUTHED LAWYER
n. an uncomplimentary name for a lawyer …1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
• REDMOUTH LAWYER
n. an uncomplimentary name for a lawyer …1967 Amer. dial., derogatory
• REDNECK
adj. boorish; rustic …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 1. a Roman Catholic …1873 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a poor, White, rural Southerner; a White person perceived as ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, or racist …1891 Amer. dial., derogatory
n. 3. (usually as ‘red neck’) ill temper; anger …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 4. (usually as ‘red-neck’) an Irishman …1929 Amer. dial.
n. 5. (usually as ‘red-neck’) a Communist; a revolutionary …1931 Amer. dial.
n. 6. (usually as ‘red-neck’) a union sympathizer …1931 Amer. dial.
n. 7. a reactionary …1960 sl., orig. US
n. 8. (usually as ‘red-neck’) a person of mixed race, esp. one believed to be partly American Indian …1963 Amer. dial.
vb. to become angry …1998 Amer. dial.
• RED-NECKED
adj. 1. ill-tempered, bad-tempered, angry …1942 Amer. sl.
adj. 2. pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud …1986 Amer. dial.
• RED-NECKY
adj. pert. to a redneck; poor, ignorant, narrow-minded, boorish, racist; belligerent, loud …1986 Amer. dial.
• RED NED
n. cheap wine, or other similar drink …1941 Aust. & NZ sl.
• RED NIGGER
n. a light-skinned Black person; a member of a mixed-race group believed to be partly American Indian in origin …1963 Amer. dial., derogatory
• RED NOISE
n. tomato soup …1936 Amer. sl.
• RED-NOSE
n. discouragement, the blues …1911 Amer. dial.
vb. to be downcast or discouraged …1911 Amer. dial.
• RED OIL
n. a non-existent substance used as the basis of a practical joke …1921 Amer. dial.
• RED OIL FOR THE RED LIGHT
n. a non-existent substance used as the basis of a practical joke …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED ONION
n. 1. a speakeasy …1930 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a railroad eating house …1931 Amer. dial.
• RED-OWL
vb. to spank …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• RED PETTICOAT
n. the common poppy, Papaver Rhoeas …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• RED-RAG
n. 1. the tongue …1791 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a source of annoyance or disgust …1883 sl.
n. 3. a sanitary napkin …L19 Brit. sl.
n. 4. the red comb of a turkey-cock …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. (usually as ‘red rag’) the pennant flying during meals …Bk1913-17 Amer. navy sl.
• RED-RAGGER
n. a Communist or socialist …1916 Aust. sl., derogatory
• A RED-RAG TO A MAD-BULL
n. a source of annoyance or disgust …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-RED
n. the red comb of a turkey-cock …1887 Eng. dial.
• RED-RIBBON
n. brandy …Bk1903 sl.
• RED RIVER
n. menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
• RED RIVER IS FLOWING
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED RIVER IS RISING
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED RIVER IS RUNNING
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED RIVER IS UP
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED ROAD
n. the throat, the gullet …1995 Amer. dial.
• RED ROBIN SNOW
n. late spring snow …1954 Amer. dial.
• RED-ROGUE
n. a gold piece …1617 sl.
• RED-ROW
n. a sore before it begins to heal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REDS
n. 1. red clouds or tints in the sky …1889 Eng. dial.
n. 2. blushes …1896 Eng. dial.
n. 3. menstruation …Bk1903 sl.
n. 4. amphetamine capsules …M20 US drug culture sl.
• THE REDS
n. 1. communists, socialists …20C sl.
n. 2. a state of depression, the blues, a gloomy mood …1967 Amer. dial.
• RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-SEA
n. the throat …Bk1903 sl.
• RED SEA PEDESTRIAN
n. a Jew …1984 jocular usage, offensive
• THE RED SEA’S OUT
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1948 Amer. dial.
• RED-SHANK
n. 1. a turkey…1707 cant
n. 2. a term of contempt for a Highlander; a bare-legged person …1817 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a duck or drake …Bk1903 sl.
• REDSKIN
n. 1. a North American Indian …L17 colloq., sometimes derogator
n. 2. (as ‘Red-skin’) a person with a lighter skin colour from brown to near-White, but not pure Black …1920s W. Indies sl.
• RED-SKINNED
adj. light-skinned …1920s African-American sl.
• REDSMAN
n. one who endeavours to settle a dispute or to part combatants …Bk1904 Sc.
• RED SPERM OIL
n. a non-existent substance used as the basis of a practical joke …1921 Amer. dial.
• RED-TACKLE
n. a gold chain …1879 sl.
• RED TAILLIGHT OIL
n. a non-existent substance used as the basis of a practical joke …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED TAPE
n. brandy …1725 sl.
• RED-TAPEISM
n. official routine …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-TAPERY
n. official routine …Bk1903 sl.
• RED-TAPIST
n. an excessively bureaucratic government official; a government clerk …Bk1903 sl.
• RED TIGER
n. a puma …1774 obs.
• RED-TOPPIN
n. red hair …1898 Eng. dial.
• RED-TOY
n. a gold watch …1879 sl.
• RED TUMMY-ACHE
n. the menses …20C US sl.
• REDUCT
vb. to deduct, to subtract …1896 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• RED-UN
n. 1. gold …c1886 sl.
n. 2. (usually as ‘red ‘un’) a pound; a sovereign …1890 Brit. sl.
• RED-UP
n. the act of setting in order, tidying, cleaning; arrangement, settlement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. (as ‘red up’)
vb. 1. to put in order, to tidy up; to clean up an apartment or house …1842 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to comb one’s hair; to groom oneself …1931 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to clear off a table, esp. after a meal …1942 Amer. dial.
• RED WAGON IS DOWN
phr. refers to a woman’s menstruation …1965 Amer. dial.
• RED-WAT
adj. blood-stained, wet with blood …1785 Sc.
• RED, WHITE AND BLUE
n. a shoe …1972 UK rhyming sl.
• RED WINGS
n. sexual intercourse or oral sex with a woman who is menstruating …1971 US motorcycle gang usage
• RED-WOOSTED
n. rum …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• REDWORM
n. an earthworm …1840 Amer. dial.
• RED-WUD
adj. raging mad; furious …1793 Sc.
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Updated: February 27, 2023
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