red inkn.

Brit.

/ˌrɛd ˈɪŋk/, U.S.

/ˈrɛd ˈɪŋk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., ink n.¹

Etymology: < red adj. + ink n.¹ In sense 2 so called on account of the use of red ink to print the debit side of an account, or to record figures showing a financial loss; compare earlier red n. 16.

Chiefly U.S.

1. slang. Red wine, esp. cheap red wine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine

drum-winea1640

red ink1849

Gladstone (claret)1864

pinkie1897

dago red1906

pinard1917

ink1918

plonk1927

grocer's Graves1931

grocer's wine1931

nelly1941

Red Ned1941

vaaljapie1945

purple death1947

grocer's sherry1958

papsak2004

1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge 44 A feller that smokes cigars instead of a pipe, [and] drinks red ink (port wine) instead of old Jamaiky.

1901 J. Hart Argonaut Lett. 328 Doubtless many a bookmaker, drinking his noisy pint of champagne,..looked with ill-concealed disdain on the quiet persons near him drinking ‘red ink’ out of a bottle without any label.

1919 Red Cross Mag. Nov. 22/3 He at once took ten of his fellow students to a sixty-cent ‘red-ink’ and spaghetti dinner down on Tenth Street.

1942 H. W. Van Loon Van Loon's Lives 631 The wine problem was easily settled. Any kind of ‘red ink’—any kind of that cheap Chianti..would be satisfactory.

1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iii. 140 You'd lie awake..with..the wine of passion poets blab about, a sour aftertaste in your mouth of Dago red ink!

1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War iii. 28 Lunch..was a real workaday snack this time: raclettes and rösti with a half-bottle of red ink.

2004 K. Greenwood Earthly Delights 99 It was Chianti, but not the red ink I had drunk as a student.

2. colloquial. Financial loss; deficit, debt. Earliest in attributive use. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Cf. in the red, out of the red at red n. 16.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column

debitor1483

creditor1543

creditrice1588

contra1648

credit side1652

credit account1701

debtor1712

money column1738

red ink1917

1907 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 May 1/4 Heavy amounts written off for depreciation, resulted in an entry in the ledger in red ink, of more than $2,000,000.]

1917 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 Nov. 6/1 The Russian war order..resulted in a loss, and..the Boston Elevated $100,000 contracts turned in red ink figures.

1921 P. B. Kyne Go-getter (1922) 13 Well, I must admit your far-sightedness in that instance will keep the Shanghai office out of the red ink this year.

1929 Cent. Mag. Mar. 605/2 Red ink returns were as prolific as asparagus, which meant you..dug deep for the freight money.

1939 S. Bent Newspaper Crusaders ii. 35 The long-drawn crusade whereby St. Louis was taken out of political red ink and put on the credit side of the electoral ledger merits examination.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/3 We cannot play with red ink when we're financing a great government.

1977 Time 28 Feb. 26/1 Carter's projected $57·4 billion deficit is an improvement over the $68 billion in red ink anticipated for fiscal 1977, which ends on Sept. 30.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 May a34/1 They hope to enact a Bush tax cut and spending plan adding $2.7 trillion in deficits to a coming decade of red ink.

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

单词	red ink
释义	red inkn. Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˈɪŋk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., ink n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + ink n.¹ In sense 2 so called on account of the use of red ink to print the debit side of an account, or to record figures showing a financial loss; compare earlier red n. 16. Chiefly U.S. 1. slang. Red wine, esp. cheap red wine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine drum-winea1640 red ink1849 Gladstone (claret)1864 pinkie1897 dago red1906 pinard1917 ink1918 plonk1927 grocer's Graves1931 grocer's wine1931 nelly1941 Red Ned1941 vaaljapie1945 purple death1947 grocer's sherry1958 papsak2004 1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge 44 A feller that smokes cigars instead of a pipe, [and] drinks red ink (port wine) instead of old Jamaiky. 1901 J. Hart Argonaut Lett. 328 Doubtless many a bookmaker, drinking his noisy pint of champagne,..looked with ill-concealed disdain on the quiet persons near him drinking ‘red ink’ out of a bottle without any label. 1919 Red Cross Mag. Nov. 22/3 He at once took ten of his fellow students to a sixty-cent ‘red-ink’ and spaghetti dinner down on Tenth Street. 1942 H. W. Van Loon Van Loon's Lives 631 The wine problem was easily settled. Any kind of ‘red ink’—any kind of that cheap Chianti..would be satisfactory. 1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iii. 140 You'd lie awake..with..the wine of passion poets blab about, a sour aftertaste in your mouth of Dago red ink! 1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War iii. 28 Lunch..was a real workaday snack this time: raclettes and rösti with a half-bottle of red ink. 2004 K. Greenwood Earthly Delights 99 It was Chianti, but not the red ink I had drunk as a student. 2. colloquial. Financial loss; deficit, debt. Earliest in attributive use. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. Cf. in the red, out of the red at red n. 16. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > side or column debitor1483 creditor1543 creditrice1588 contra1648 credit side1652 credit account1701 debtor1712 money column1738 red ink1917 1907 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 May 1/4 Heavy amounts written off for depreciation, resulted in an entry in the ledger in red ink, of more than $2,000,000.] 1917 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 Nov. 6/1 The Russian war order..resulted in a loss, and..the Boston Elevated $100,000 contracts turned in red ink figures. 1921 P. B. Kyne Go-getter (1922) 13 Well, I must admit your far-sightedness in that instance will keep the Shanghai office out of the red ink this year. 1929 Cent. Mag. Mar. 605/2 Red ink returns were as prolific as asparagus, which meant you..dug deep for the freight money. 1939 S. Bent Newspaper Crusaders ii. 35 The long-drawn crusade whereby St. Louis was taken out of political red ink and put on the credit side of the electoral ledger merits examination. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/3 We cannot play with red ink when we're financing a great government. 1977 Time 28 Feb. 26/1 Carter's projected $57·4 billion deficit is an improvement over the $68 billion in red ink anticipated for fiscal 1977, which ends on Sept. 30. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 May a34/1 They hope to enact a Bush tax cut and spending plan adding $2.7 trillion in deficits to a coming decade of red ink. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849
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