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right wing
[f. right a. + wing n.]
1. Mil. The division on the right side of an army or fleet in battle array.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 35/2 There was..no square battell, no right wing, nor anie other prouision appointed. 1670,1844[see left wing 1 a].
2. In football and similar games: the position of a player on the right side of the centre(s); a player occupying this position; the part of the field in which the right wing normally plays. Cf. wing n. 7 b.
1882in Charles-Edwards & Richardson They saw it Happen (1958) 299 Of the Rovers forwards the right wing pair first became prominent. 1900in B. James England v Scotland (1969) iii. 72 For England, Crabtree was cleverly holding the Scottish right wing in check and showing grand form. 1901Encycl. Sport II. 419/2 The left back and left half-back attend to the opposing right wing forwards. 1947Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 3/2 Appearing in their league side on the right wing and, later, at centre forward he became very popular with the Shepherds Bush spectators. 1969Eagleson & McKie Terminol. Austral. Nat. Football iii. 10 Right wing, a variant for right centre. 1974Observer 1 Sept. 18/3 Hall improvised brilliantly up and down Liverpool's right wing interpassing with Heighway.
3. That section of a political party, assembly, or other body most tending to hold conservative or reactionary views (see right n.1 17 d). Freq. (with hyphen) attrib. or as adj.
1905W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) v. 124 If the formula ever became canonical, it would certainly develop both right-wing and left-wing interpreters. 1927U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 348 Jacob Menzies had been clubbed almost insensible on the picket-line. Jacob was the ‘right wing’ brother..who had been earning his education by pressing students' pants. 1928E. & C. Paul tr. Stalin's Leninism 322 Is our Party..making any concessions to the right-wing deviation of the Communist International? 1933Labour Monthly Apr. 237 We are not yet at the point where the right wing advocates dictatorship of the proletariat. 1937‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 243 The thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold. 1940W. Temple Thoughts in War-Time iii. 23 The Right Wing tends to emphasise..the distinction between the Government and the community and apply to the Government the ethics of trusteeship. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 80 It is not eugenics but right-wing politics if we merely talk of favouring the breeding of the upper classes of our present social system at the expense of the lower. 1955Times 7 July 8/4 The right-wing monarchists and neo-Fascists [in Italy] are expected to ‘wait and see’. 1957Economist 26 Oct. 299/2 President Castillo's strong-arm methods steered the country between communism and right-wing nationalism. 1958M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour viii. 83 It seems likely that Catholics have an intrinsically right-wing attitude. Ibid., Protestants support right-wing parties, Jews support the left and have radical attitudes. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 5 The job of foreign affairs spokesman went to Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker..and the remainder of the ‘shadow’ portfolios were distributed among other right-wing personalities. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 57 Had he poked a switchblade into an enlightened student (for Norman was passionately right-wing)? 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iii. 126 The Liberal Party itself was in an increasing state of decomposition, with Salandra's right wing now dominant. 1981Times 15 June 2/7 A new right-wing pressure group publication circulating among moderates.
Hence right-winger, (a) a member of a political right wing; (b) in Football, a player on the right wing. Also right-wingery, right-wingism; right-wingy a.
1928E. & C. Paul tr. Stalin's Leninism 322 They hesitate between embracing the tenets of Leninism and throwing in their lot with the right-wingers. 1929Right-winger [see cross-pass s.v. cross- B.] 1937Wyndham Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering 306 Mr. Douglas Jerrold stands out from the hardboiled crowd: he is the brains of the Right. I think he is the Sotelo of English right-wingery. 1951Sport 16–22 Mar. 13/3 In 20-year-old Brian Siddall..Stoke appear to have found a right-winger of unbounded promise. 1960News Chron. 1 July 4/3 The back-bench Right-wingers want a strong-man Chancellor. 1962Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 12 Feb. 4/6 A meeting of the American Jewish Congress which had been discussing right-wingism in the USA. 1973D. Kyle Suvarov Affair iv. 36 ‘Why do I represent the Russians?’ he would ask. ‘Because they want me to. Though why they pick a right-winger like me I can't imagine.’ 1973Scotsman 13 Feb. 1/1 Almost all students, including moderates and Right-wingers, are convinced that they must not go on, and that serious disturbances will result if they do. 1977Listener 13 Jan. 60/4 Some people have thought that your heroes are rather snooty and right-wingy and so forth. 1978Listener 13 July 59/4 An..irrational right-wingism, which eschews all 19th-century liberalism. |