redheadn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌ(h)ɛd/

Inflections: Plural redheads, (in sense A. 3) unchanged.

Forms: see red adj. and n. and head n.¹ Also as two words.

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

Etymology: < red adj. + head n.¹ In sense A. 2 ultimately after Ottoman Turkish qizilbaš Kizilbash n. With redhead duck at sense A. 3a compare earlier red-headed duck n. at red-headed adj. Compounds. Compare earlier red-headed adj.Attested earlier (presumably in sense A. 1) as a surname: Adam Redhed (1256), Johanne Redhede (1469). Quot. 1510 at sense A. 1 may show the adjective.

A. n.

1. A red-haired person.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > red > person having

redhead1510

ginger1823

Titian1839

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rufus1846

sorrel-top1863

ginger nob1878

coppernob1880

bluey1892

ginge1911

ranga2003

1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula sig. Aiv^v Redd hede, rufus.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xii. 677 An order was set downe, that they should sacrifice nothing but redde oxen and red-headed men,..so that Egipt hauing few of those red heads, and other countries many, thence came there a report that Busyris massacred strangers.

1784 T. Holcroft Noble Peasant i. i. 7 Zounds, Clym, hast no religion?—Dost not know that these Red-heads, these Carroty-poles, are Pagans?

1838 W. M. Thackeray in Comic Almanack for 1839 16 The men, though they affected to call me a poor little creature, squint-eyes, knock-knees, red-head, and so on, were evidently annoyed by my success.

1893 K. Kohler in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 366 You see man divided into groups of blackheads (the race of Ham) and redheads (Adam).

1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load i. 12 He wondered whether sex starvation had..started to provoke hallucinations... He had seen..a gorgeous red-head.

1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 8/5 Once a redhead always a redhead—you do not forgo membership if your red hair turns silver or even if you go bald.

2. A member of the Kizilbash (Kizilbash n. a), a people noted for wearing red headdresses.

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the world > people > ethnicities > Turk > [noun] > Turkic (speaking) peoples > person

tartarina1400

Tartarianc1400

redhead1555

Nogaian1589

Nogai1591

Turkoman1600

Uzbek1616

Osmanli1704

Kizilbash1727

Uighur1785

Kazakh1832

Oghuz1843

Ghuzz1845

Khazar1854

Oghuzian1880

Avar1881

Qajar1883

Kizil1909

Azerbaijani1911

Türkmen1927

Kashgai1937

Tuvinian1938

Tuvan1964

Turkman-

1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 250 They caule the kynge of Percia Kisilpassa (that is) redde headde.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xx. 108 The Sophians whiche are the Persians, weare redde ones [sc. hats]... In derision the Turks do cal them Kesulbach, which is to say, redde heads.

1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 434 [The prophets] commanded their Disciples to wear a red band or riband on their Hats, whereby to be known from others: whence they were, and yet are (over all the East) called Cuselba's, that is, Red-heads.

1728 J. A. Du Cerceau tr. J. T. Krusinski Hist. Revol. Persia I. 4 'Tis on account of the Colour of their Turbans that the Turks call them Red-Heads.

a1843 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 444/1 There is the sect of Nakhoodi..who surpass seventy times all the impiety of the Redheads (the Persians).

1857 tr. A. de Lamartine Hist. of Turkey III. xxvi. 227 If thou hast a sabre long enough,..take Bagdad to-day; if not, take refuge among the Red-heads.

1959 N. Berkes tr. Z. Gökalp Turkish Nationalism & Western Civilization iv. 107 The appearance of the Red Heads among the Turks can be explained by this disparity.

1988 A. S. Ahmed Discovering Islam i. iv. 69 The Turks..would be the constant enemies of the Saffavid soldiers, the Qizilbash or red-heads. The Saffavids wore red turbans.

a. A North American diving duck, Aythya americana, with a reddish-brown head, related to and resembling the Eurasian pochard, A. ferina; also more fully redhead duck.Many redheads are partial brood parasites of other ducks.

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > head > bird having particular colour

blackhead1658

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya americana (red(-)head)

pochard1552

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > member of genus Melanerpes > species erythrocephalus (red-head)

redhead1709

red-headed woodpecker1729

1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 150 Red Heads..are very sweet food, and plentiful in our Rivers and Creeks.

1814 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VIII. 110 The Red-head is twenty inches in length.

1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 11 Oct. 467/2 The canvas-back..and the red-head, are becoming yearly more scarce.

1908 Auk 25 216 There is recorded the shooting of a female Redhead Duck in the first week of November, 1907.

1933 Ruthven (Iowa) Free Press 7 June 1/3 Only one other redhead nest is on record in this state in recent years.

1972 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 36 667/1 The redhead duck should probably be referred to as Aythya americana rather than Nyroca americana.

2001 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 29 15/2 Her current field research includes studies of badger ecology and redhead nest parasitism.

b. Any of various other birds with a red or reddish head, or red markings on the head; esp. (a) British regional the pochard, Aythya ferina; (b) North American the red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus; (c) Australian the red-browed waxbill, Aegintha temporalis; (d) chiefly British a red-headed smew. Cf. red-headed adj. Compounds.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > miscellaneous types of

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya ferina (pochard)

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > other types of

ivory-bill1787

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Gila1858

zebra woodpecker1884

1816 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 2) 237 The chief of the shooting on the ponds by night is at the dunbirds, which are vulgarly called redheads.

1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 145 As soon as the Red-heads have begun to visit a Cherry or Apple tree, a pole is placed along the trunk of the tree.

1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 312 Pochard..known along the coast as the ‘redhead’ and ‘ker’.

1889 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 4 411 Estrilda temporalis..called ‘Red-head’.

1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 773 Redhead, a name often given by gunners to the male of the Pochard and of the Wigeon.

1925 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 22/4 I had always looked on the wax-bill, or red-browed finch (vulgarly ‘red-head’), as a harmless but rather useless little fowl.

1964 M. Sharland Territory of Birds 137 The Scarlet Honeyeater..doesn't trespass on the territory of the Red-head.

1989 Auk 106 212/2 I found significant differences..between Red-belly and Red-head [sc. woodpecker] nests.

1999 Birdwatch Apr. 57/2 A dozen Smew included two drakes and two redheads.

4. Caribbean. Bastard ipecacuanha, Asclepias curassavica (family Apocynaceae), which has a bright red flower.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > ipecacuanha

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1798 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. v. 867 Redhead, Asclepias currasavica.

1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 63 Bastard Ipecacuanha. Asclepias..Currassavica... It grows very common almost every where in Jamaica, and is called red head by the negroes.

1847 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 6 212 The Asclepias curassavica, known to the English inhabitants by the names of Bastard Ipecacuanha or Redhead;..the latter from the colour of its umbel of flowers.

1927 M. W. Beckwith Notes Jamaican Ethnobotany 26 Red-head... For a boil, ‘rub it up’, add laundry blue and rub on the sore to ‘draw out the seed’.

1963 V. E. Graham Trop. Wild Flowers 104 Asclepias curavassica..is universal in the tropics; it is variously known as Silkweed, Milkweed, Redhead, and Bastard Ipecacuanha.

1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants of Barbados 79/2 Asclepias curassavica L. Indian Root, Red head... Corolla 5-lobed, bright orange-red, forming a skirt below the central yellow column of the style.

B. adj. (attributive).

That has red or reddish hair; (esp. of a bird) having a red head; = red-headed adj.

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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour

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1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 4 Read the red-hed boy.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 243/2 The Red Head Linnet.., the Eyes Hazle colour, on the top of the Head, is a red or sanguine large spot.

1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 61 The Red Head Sparrow.

1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 483 A great variety of ducks as..the red head shoveler, the black head shoveler.

1892 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) (1893) 46 Pochard, male sometimes called Redhead Drake.

1938 Tyrone (Pennsylvania) Daily Herald 27 May 8/1 A house intended for a red-head woodpecker should have a floor space six by six inches square.

1983 Indian Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 21 177 (title) Triiodothyronine & thyroxine in the physiology of the migratory redhead bunting, Emberiza bruniceps.

2008 Cape Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Life section) 9 A little red-head girl and I would treat our parents to weekly concerts on Sunday afternoons.

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

单词	redhead
释义	redheadn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɛdhɛd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌ(h)ɛd/ Inflections: Plural redheads, (in sense A. 3) unchanged. Forms: see red adj. and n. and head n.¹ Also as two words. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., head n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + head n.¹ In sense A. 2 ultimately after Ottoman Turkish qizilbaš Kizilbash n. With redhead duck at sense A. 3a compare earlier red-headed duck n. at red-headed adj. Compounds. Compare earlier red-headed adj.Attested earlier (presumably in sense A. 1) as a surname: Adam Redhed (1256), Johanne Redhede (1469). Quot. 1510 at sense A. 1 may show the adjective. A. n. 1. A red-haired person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > red > person having redhead1510 ginger1823 Titian1839 bricktop1841 rufus1846 sorrel-top1863 ginger nob1878 coppernob1880 bluey1892 ginge1911 ranga2003 1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula sig. Aiv^v Redd hede, rufus. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xii. 677 An order was set downe, that they should sacrifice nothing but redde oxen and red-headed men,..so that Egipt hauing few of those red heads, and other countries many, thence came there a report that Busyris massacred strangers. 1784 T. Holcroft Noble Peasant i. i. 7 Zounds, Clym, hast no religion?—Dost not know that these Red-heads, these Carroty-poles, are Pagans? 1838 W. M. Thackeray in Comic Almanack for 1839 16 The men, though they affected to call me a poor little creature, squint-eyes, knock-knees, red-head, and so on, were evidently annoyed by my success. 1893 K. Kohler in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 366 You see man divided into groups of blackheads (the race of Ham) and redheads (Adam). 1977 ‘D. Rutherford’ Return Load i. 12 He wondered whether sex starvation had..started to provoke hallucinations... He had seen..a gorgeous red-head. 1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 8/5 Once a redhead always a redhead—you do not forgo membership if your red hair turns silver or even if you go bald. 2. A member of the Kizilbash (Kizilbash n. a), a people noted for wearing red headdresses. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Turk > [noun] > Turkic (speaking) peoples > person tartarina1400 Tartarianc1400 redhead1555 Nogaian1589 Nogai1591 Turkoman1600 Uzbek1616 Osmanli1704 Kizilbash1727 Uighur1785 Kazakh1832 Oghuz1843 Ghuzz1845 Khazar1854 Oghuzian1880 Avar1881 Qajar1883 Kizil1909 Azerbaijani1911 Türkmen1927 Kashgai1937 Tuvinian1938 Tuvan1964 Turkman- 1555 R. Eden Disc. Vyages Butrigarius & Cabote in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 250 They caule the kynge of Percia Kisilpassa (that is) redde headde. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xx. 108 The Sophians whiche are the Persians, weare redde ones [sc. hats]... In derision the Turks do cal them Kesulbach, which is to say, redde heads. 1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 434 [The prophets] commanded their Disciples to wear a red band or riband on their Hats, whereby to be known from others: whence they were, and yet are (over all the East) called Cuselba's, that is, Red-heads. 1728 J. A. Du Cerceau tr. J. T. Krusinski Hist. Revol. Persia I. 4 'Tis on account of the Colour of their Turbans that the Turks call them Red-Heads. a1843 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 444/1 There is the sect of Nakhoodi..who surpass seventy times all the impiety of the Redheads (the Persians). 1857 tr. A. de Lamartine Hist. of Turkey III. xxvi. 227 If thou hast a sabre long enough,..take Bagdad to-day; if not, take refuge among the Red-heads. 1959 N. Berkes tr. Z. Gökalp Turkish Nationalism & Western Civilization iv. 107 The appearance of the Red Heads among the Turks can be explained by this disparity. 1988 A. S. Ahmed Discovering Islam i. iv. 69 The Turks..would be the constant enemies of the Saffavid soldiers, the Qizilbash or red-heads. The Saffavids wore red turbans. 3. a. A North American diving duck, Aythya americana, with a reddish-brown head, related to and resembling the Eurasian pochard, A. ferina; also more fully redhead duck.Many redheads are partial brood parasites of other ducks. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > head > bird having particular colour blackhead1658 black cap1668 whitecap1668 whitehead1686 redhead1709 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya americana (red(-)head) pochard1552 wigeon1668 redhead1709 pochard duck1829 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > member of genus Melanerpes > species erythrocephalus (red-head) redhead1709 red-headed woodpecker1729 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 150 Red Heads..are very sweet food, and plentiful in our Rivers and Creeks. 1814 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VIII. 110 The Red-head is twenty inches in length. 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 11 Oct. 467/2 The canvas-back..and the red-head, are becoming yearly more scarce. 1908 Auk 25 216 There is recorded the shooting of a female Redhead Duck in the first week of November, 1907. 1933 Ruthven (Iowa) Free Press 7 June 1/3 Only one other redhead nest is on record in this state in recent years. 1972 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 36 667/1 The redhead duck should probably be referred to as Aythya americana rather than Nyroca americana. 2001 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 29 15/2 Her current field research includes studies of badger ecology and redhead nest parasitism. b. Any of various other birds with a red or reddish head, or red markings on the head; esp. (a) British regional the pochard, Aythya ferina; (b) North American the red-headed woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus; (c) Australian the red-browed waxbill, Aegintha temporalis; (d) chiefly British a red-headed smew. Cf. red-headed adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > miscellaneous types of firefinch1783 redhead1816 firetail1845 fire-tailed finch1845 zebra finch1868 magpie finch1869 cut-throat finch1872 melba finch1876 zebra1879 bluebill1955 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aythya (miscellaneous) > aythya ferina (pochard) pochard1552 dunbird1587 smeath1622 red-headed wigeon1668 smee1668 wigeon1668 gold head1704 dun cur1802 redhead1816 red-headed pochard1824 pochard duck1829 smee-duck1862 well plum1862 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > other types of ivory-bill1787 redhead1816 Gila1858 zebra woodpecker1884 1816 P. Hawker Instr. Young Sportsmen (ed. 2) 237 The chief of the shooting on the ponds by night is at the dunbirds, which are vulgarly called redheads. 1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 145 As soon as the Red-heads have begun to visit a Cherry or Apple tree, a pole is placed along the trunk of the tree. 1863 J. R. Wise New Forest 312 Pochard..known along the coast as the ‘redhead’ and ‘ker’. 1889 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 4 411 Estrilda temporalis..called ‘Red-head’. 1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 773 Redhead, a name often given by gunners to the male of the Pochard and of the Wigeon. 1925 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Mar. 22/4 I had always looked on the wax-bill, or red-browed finch (vulgarly ‘red-head’), as a harmless but rather useless little fowl. 1964 M. Sharland Territory of Birds 137 The Scarlet Honeyeater..doesn't trespass on the territory of the Red-head. 1989 Auk 106 212/2 I found significant differences..between Red-belly and Red-head [sc. woodpecker] nests. 1999 Birdwatch Apr. 57/2 A dozen Smew included two drakes and two redheads. 4. Caribbean. Bastard ipecacuanha, Asclepias curassavica (family Apocynaceae), which has a bright red flower. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > ipecacuanha ipecac1788 ipecacuanha1788 redhead1798 1798 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. v. 867 Redhead, Asclepias currasavica. 1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 63 Bastard Ipecacuanha. Asclepias..Currassavica... It grows very common almost every where in Jamaica, and is called red head by the negroes. 1847 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 6 212 The Asclepias curassavica, known to the English inhabitants by the names of Bastard Ipecacuanha or Redhead;..the latter from the colour of its umbel of flowers. 1927 M. W. Beckwith Notes Jamaican Ethnobotany 26 Red-head... For a boil, ‘rub it up’, add laundry blue and rub on the sore to ‘draw out the seed’. 1963 V. E. Graham Trop. Wild Flowers 104 Asclepias curavassica..is universal in the tropics; it is variously known as Silkweed, Milkweed, Redhead, and Bastard Ipecacuanha. 1993 S. Carrington Wild Plants of Barbados 79/2 Asclepias curassavica L. Indian Root, Red head... Corolla 5-lobed, bright orange-red, forming a skirt below the central yellow column of the style. B. adj. (attributive). That has red or reddish hair; (esp. of a bird) having a red head; = red-headed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having redeOE rousec1400 red-haired?a1513 sandy?1530 red-headed1548 amber-crowneda1586 redhead1664 sandy-pated1687 red-polled1787 sandy-haireda1817 brick-topped1858 Titian-haired1880 the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour red-headed1556 white-crowned1605 red-capped1648 redhead1738 blue-headed1743 grey-headed1747 black-capped1751 ruby-crowned1758 ruby-headed1811 1664 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 4 Read the red-hed boy. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xi. 243/2 The Red Head Linnet.., the Eyes Hazle colour, on the top of the Head, is a red or sanguine large spot. 1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds III. 61 The Red Head Sparrow. 1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 483 A great variety of ducks as..the red head shoveler, the black head shoveler. 1892 in H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) (1893) 46 Pochard, male sometimes called Redhead Drake. 1938 Tyrone (Pennsylvania) Daily Herald 27 May 8/1 A house intended for a red-head woodpecker should have a floor space six by six inches square. 1983 Indian Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 21 177 (title) Triiodothyronine & thyroxine in the physiology of the migratory redhead bunting, Emberiza bruniceps. 2008 Cape Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Life section) 9 A little red-head girl and I would treat our parents to weekly concerts on Sunday afternoons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1510
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