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red-necked, a.
a. Having a red neck; used spec. in names of birds (and animals).
red-necked avocet, the Australian avocet, Recurvirostra rubricollis. r. bernacle, the red-breasted goose, Bernicla ruficollis. r. coot-foot = r. phalarope. r. dabchick = r. grebe. r. footman, a British moth. r. francolin, a South African francolin, F. rubricollis. r. goatsucker = r. night-jar. r. grebe, Podiceps rubricollis or grisegena. r. kangaroo = r. wallaby. r. lobe-foot = r. phalarope. r. night-jar, Caprimulgus ruficollis. r. partridge = r. francolin. r. phalarope, Phalaropus or Lobipes hyperboreus. r. pheasant = r. francolin. r. (purre) sandpiper (see quot. 1802). r. wallaby, Macropus ruficollis.
1874J. E. Harting in Ibis July 259 The *Red-necked Avocet, which is perhaps the most beautiful of the four known species, chiefly inhabits Australia.
1831Wilson, etc. Amer. Ornith. IV. 348 *Red-necked Bernacles.
1896Morris & Tegetmeier Nests Brit. Birds III. 65 *Red-Necked Coot-Foot.
1817T. Forster Nat. Hist. Swallowtribe (ed. 2) 89 *Rednecked dobchick.
1845Westwood Moths I. 99 Gnophria rubricollis (the *red-necked Footman).
1819Shaw Zool. XI. ii. 35 *Red-necked Francolin.
1847P. H. Gosse Birds of Jamaica 334 The *red-necked gaulin—Egretta ruficollis.
1862Hancock in Ibis 39 Notice on the occurrence of the *Red-necked Goat sucker (Caprimulgus ruficollis) in England.
1785Pennant Arct. Zool. (1792) II. 499 *Red-necked Grebe, Colymbus Parotis. 1889Aplin Birds Oxfordsh. 180 The Red-necked Grebe is an occasional winter visitor. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 382 The larger Red-necked Grebe, P. griseigena,..a native of the sub-arctic parts of both Europe and America.
1841Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mamm. I. 125 The *Red-necked Kangaroo was discovered by MM. Peron and Lesueur.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 246 The *Red-necked Lobefoot.
1896Morris & Tegetmeier Nests Brit. Birds I. 128 The *Red-necked Night-jar has only once been recorded as occurring in Great Britain; it breeds in the South of Europe.
1783Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 771 *Red-necked Partridge.
1817T. Forster Nat. Hist. Swallowtribe (ed. 6) 88 *Red-necked phalarope. 1882Newton Yarrell's Birds III. 315 The Red-necked Phalarope is at once distinguished from the Grey Phalarope..by its smaller size, with a longer and more slender beak [etc.]. 1971Country Life 27 May 1292/3 The red-necked phalarope..though still Ireland's rarest breeding bird, has shown an increase.
1867Layard Birds S. Afr. 268 The ‘*red-necked pheasant’ is only found in wooded districts.
1785Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 183 *Red-necked Purre Sandpiper. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 408 Red-necked sandpiper. The young of the Dunlin.
1894–5Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. III. 241 One of the largest species is the *red-necked wallaby. 1926Red-necked wallaby [see brush wallaby s.v. brush n.1 4].
1782J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 558 (heading) *Red-necked W[oodpecker].
b. Holding redneck views; characteristic of a redneck (sense 1); conservative. orig. U.S.
1960Washington Post 30 Apr. a6 ‘Uncle Earl’ cavorted in typically ‘red-necked’ style at a fashionable luncheon. 1973Publishers' Weekly 2 Apr. 58/2 A villain (red-necked political appointee with shady family connections to an equally red-necked but powerful Senator). 1977Arab Times 13 Dec. 6/4 The white, red necked, blue collared worker is more interested in better wages, lower taxes, improved Social Security than justice in the Middle East. |