redneckn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛdnɛk/, U.S.

/ˈrɛdˌnɛk/

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

Etymology: < red adj. + neck n.¹ Compare red-necked adj.With sense A. 1 compare the scientific Latin specific name rubricolis (in Phalaena rubricollis : Linnaeus Systema naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 495). With sense A. 2 compare the scientific Latin genus name rugilus . Senses A. 3, A. 4, and A. 5 may all have alluded originally to the sunbaked or sunburnt skin of fair-skinned people in various different contexts, although it is only in the case of sense A. 5 that this is reasonably certain (albeit originally in Afrikaans rather than in English, and compare quot. 1900 at sense A. 5 for a dissenting view). The spec. use in quot. 1830 at sense A. 3 may or may not be connected with the later wider use at this sense. Some assume that this is the case, and that the wider use arose on account of the large numbers of Presbyterian settlers in rural areas of the southern United States. Alternatively, the wider use may simply allude to the sunbaked skin of white labourers; compare slightly later red-necked adj. 2. For an alternative suggestion that the reference may be to the effects of pellagra resulting from the diet of poor people in this region see Amer. Speech 59 (1984) 284. In spite of the chronology, it is possible that the use in quot. 1830 at sense A. 3 may simply show a narrower application of the wider use. Alternatively, it has been suggested that it may perhaps allude to pieces of red cloth worn by some Presbyterians around their necks as a commemoration of the tradition that some of the signatories of the Solemn League and Covenant (see covenant n. 9a) had signed using their own blood, but there is apparently no corroboration for this. Compare sense A. 4 for application of the same term to a quite different religious group; in this instance the use may perhaps refer to the characteristically fair skin of Irish people, and hence only by extension to other Roman Catholics, but this also is very uncertain. In sense A. 5 after Afrikaans rooinek rooinek n.; compare earlier rooinek n.

A. n.

†I. Senses relating to animals, esp. insects.

1. = red-neck moth n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth)

farfalla1606

taper-fly?1614

candle-fly1626

moth1646

phalaena1658

pilser1736

redneck1773

bustard1803

soul1815

notch-wing1819

satellite1832

bobowler1852

1773 M. Harris Aurelian (new ed.) 79 Red Neck. This Moth is commonly seen flying about the tops of high oaks the beginning of June.

1827 Retrosp. Rev. 1 245 (table) Lithoria, Fab. Rubricollis. Red neck.

2. A European rove beetle, Rugilus fragilis, with a slender red thorax. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Staphylinidae > member of (rove-beetle)

rove beetle1771

redneck1872

staphylinid1965

1872 J. G. Wood Insects at Home 81 The present species is one of the few Brachelytra that has a popular name. It is called the Red-neck, on account of the bright-red colour of the thorax.

II. Slang uses.

3. Originally North American (usually derogatory). Originally: a poorly educated white person working as an agricultural labourer or from a rural area in the southern United States, typically considered as holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes. Now also more generally: any unsophisticated or poorly educated person, esp. one holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes.Quot. 1830 may represent a more specialized use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person

mumpsimus1530

inveteratist1715

reactionary1799

statu quo-ite1816

retrograde1825

redneck1830

stationary1831

stick-in-the-mud1832

reactionist1834

retrogradist1836

retrogressionist1848

mountainy man1851

misoneist1891

reactionarist1907

blimp1934

Neanderthal1966

hard hat1970

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > American

wool hat1794

redneck1830

swamp Yankee1941

1830 A. Royall Southern Tour I. 148 This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville.

1891 in Amer. Speech 76 435 Primary on the 25th. And the ‘rednecks’ will be there... And the ‘hayseeds’,..they'll be there, too.

1904 Dial. Notes 2 420 Redneck, an uncouth countryman. ‘The hill-billies came from the hills, and the rednecks from the swamps.’

1913 J. Davis Life & Speeches iii. 42 If you red-necks or hill billies ever come to Little Rock be sure and come to see me—come to my house.

1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 122 Rich and poor, aristocrat and redneck.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Aug. 491/4 The ugly faces and..the uglier actions of a handful of red-necks, crackers, tar-heels and other poor white trash here and there in the South.

1969 Observer 7 Dec. 25/3 They [sc. communes] all shared two experiences: the search for new values, and attention from local rednecks and the police.

1977 D. James Spy at Evening x. 71 Middle-class rednecks like you..get all worked up about it.

1991 J. Waters Jiving at Crossroads xvi. 157 The media line was that his was the politics of the stroke, the fix, the parish pump, of graft, crookery and whatever you're having yourself; he was the archetypal rural redneck, corrupted by power.

2005 New Yorker 3 Jan. 12/3 Her stories about ass-kicking and rebel-yelling may not prove she's the redneck she claims she is.

4. English regional (chiefly northern) and U.S. regional (chiefly north Midland and western). derogatory. A Roman Catholic; (also) an Irish person.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland

IrishmanOE

Ireis1297

hooded mana1464

Mac1518

Irish1553

Teague?1661

bog-trotter1682

Milesian1682

dear joy1688

Teaguelander1689

paddy1714

bog-lander1736

bog-stalkera1758

brogueneer1758

paddywhack1773

Pat1796

West Briton1805

Irisher1807

Patlander1820

Greek1823

Mick1850

redneck1852

Grecian1853

mickeyc1854

Mike1859

harp1904

society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun]

papist1528

Romanist1534

Roman1537

Romist1543

papistic1545

popestant1549

flesh-maker1551

mass-monger1551

Romish1551

Pope catholicc1554

popeling1563

catholic1570

Romish Catholic1571

popera1577

Pope worshipper1579

papane1581

Roman Catholic1581

Cacolike1582

Cartholic1582

papisha1595

Babylonian1603

papal1611

popinian1613

Papalin1616

Romulist1620

papicolist1633

western1640

papagan1641

universalist1644

red-letter man1677

RC1691

Azymite1728

papalist1752

craw-thumper1786

catholicist1812

papisher1817

pontifical1832

Romanite1839

dogan1847

mickey1851

redneck1852

mackerel-snatcher1855

Latin1867

Romanensian1885

Roman candle1897

Mick1902

Mick Dooley1905

Mickey Doo1905

left-footer1911

Pape1927

right-footer1929

Doolan1940

tyke1941

Tim1958

mackerel-snapper1960

Teague1971

Mickey Doolan1972

1852 Times 2 July 5/6 The reply was, ‘They are b—— red necks’ (Papists).

1865 T. J. Potter Percy Grange (ed. 2) i. ii. 42 Incited..by the evil passions which had been stirred up in our breasts, we began to cry out ‘Papist’, and ‘Red-neck’.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 2/3 ‘Red-neck’ used to be applied to Roman Catholics in Lancashire as a term of opprobrium.

1929 A. Ellis Life Ordinary Woman 202 George starts to complain that it was run by a bunch of ‘red necks’,..‘flannel mouths’, ‘Micks’—all names for Irishmen.

1948 R. L. Tobin Golden Opinions 109 ‘Oysters!’ said Malloy. ‘A feast! Maybe I am too harsh with you, Murphy, even if you are a herring-snapping redneck.’

5. South African (usually derogatory). = rooinek n. Dict. S. Afr. Eng. (1996) records this use as obsolescent.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > British

rooinek1891

redneck1896

1896 Cent. Mag. July 450/2 They are very prejudiced, and the strongest of their prejudices, next to that against Roman Catholics,..is against the English, whom they call ‘red-necks’.

1900 A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii Rooinek, ‘Red~neck’, in reference originally to some merinos introduced by an English farmer into the Free State, and marked with a red brand on the neck. These were spoken of as red-necks—an expression afterwards extended to the English themselves, and then as a term of contempt to the British troops in red uniform.

1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 111 To find a red-neck cheap upon this day You do not need to wander far away.

1972 J. McClure Caterpillar Cop ii. 18 What's with this Red~neck?.. Another bloody English immigrant?

B. adj. (chiefly attributive).

Originally U.S. (usually derogatory). Of, relating to, or designating a redneck; characteristic of a redneck or rednecks (sense A. 3); reactionary, bigoted.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [adjective]

hidebound1603

bigot1623

bigotish1652

bigoted1660

bigoticala1670

bigotic1678

intolerating1711

intolerant1765

chauvinist1877

redneck1938

chauvinistic1975

shut-minded1977

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [adjective]

retrograde?1518

hidebound1603

tradition-bound1660

tradition-loving1660

tradition-ridden1660

mumpsimus1680

stickfast1803

arriéré1814

stick-in-the-mud1832

reactive1836

reactionary1847

reactionist1848

misoneistic1891

red-necked1896

Blimpian1935

blimpish1938

redneck1938

1938 Port Arthur (Texas) News 24 Sept. 2/4 (heading) Former wife to race Mississippi's Bilbo for seat in senate by refining his redneck platform tricks.

1954 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 20 336 The rustic radicals of the forest and the redneck pea pickers of the hill country rose again to follow protest programs.

1961 D. Alexander Bloodstain xi. 134 You should never have come out here alone. This is redneck country. Every man in every one of these houses is a Night Rider.

1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 102/3 He seems Southern redneck—a common man who works outdoors in the sun—to the soul.

1989 W. Deverell Mindfield 61 He was an east-end precinct shop steward; he had lots of rank-and-file redneck support, and was assumed by some to be management's fink.

1994 High Life (Brit. Airways) Nov. 28/1 Oddly, the Benny Hill Show , originally aimed at the redneck segment, eventually captivated audiences at every level.

1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 46/4 Clint..seems at first like the stereotyping redneck Afrikaaner, somebody who..has made no concessions to the new era.

Compounds

red-neck moth n. rare (now historical) the red-necked footman, Atolmis rubricollis.

ΚΠ

1802 Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 159 Phalaena rubricollis. Red-neck M[oth]. Black; the neck of a blood-red colour; the abdomen yellow.

1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 174 The thorax also is black, but the part nearest the head, termed the collar, is red, hence the common English name Red-neck moth given to it by Harris.

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

单词	redneck
释义	redneckn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɛdnɛk/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌnɛk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., neck n.¹ Etymology: < red adj. + neck n.¹ Compare red-necked adj.With sense A. 1 compare the scientific Latin specific name rubricolis (in Phalaena rubricollis : Linnaeus Systema naturæ (ed. 10, 1758) I. 495). With sense A. 2 compare the scientific Latin genus name rugilus . Senses A. 3, A. 4, and A. 5 may all have alluded originally to the sunbaked or sunburnt skin of fair-skinned people in various different contexts, although it is only in the case of sense A. 5 that this is reasonably certain (albeit originally in Afrikaans rather than in English, and compare quot. 1900 at sense A. 5 for a dissenting view). The spec. use in quot. 1830 at sense A. 3 may or may not be connected with the later wider use at this sense. Some assume that this is the case, and that the wider use arose on account of the large numbers of Presbyterian settlers in rural areas of the southern United States. Alternatively, the wider use may simply allude to the sunbaked skin of white labourers; compare slightly later red-necked adj. 2. For an alternative suggestion that the reference may be to the effects of pellagra resulting from the diet of poor people in this region see Amer. Speech 59 (1984) 284. In spite of the chronology, it is possible that the use in quot. 1830 at sense A. 3 may simply show a narrower application of the wider use. Alternatively, it has been suggested that it may perhaps allude to pieces of red cloth worn by some Presbyterians around their necks as a commemoration of the tradition that some of the signatories of the Solemn League and Covenant (see covenant n. 9a) had signed using their own blood, but there is apparently no corroboration for this. Compare sense A. 4 for application of the same term to a quite different religious group; in this instance the use may perhaps refer to the characteristically fair skin of Irish people, and hence only by extension to other Roman Catholics, but this also is very uncertain. In sense A. 5 after Afrikaans rooinek rooinek n.; compare earlier rooinek n. A. n. †I. Senses relating to animals, esp. insects. 1. = red-neck moth n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) farfalla1606 taper-fly?1614 candle-fly1626 moth1646 phalaena1658 pilser1736 redneck1773 bustard1803 soul1815 notch-wing1819 satellite1832 bobowler1852 1773 M. Harris Aurelian (new ed.) 79 Red Neck. This Moth is commonly seen flying about the tops of high oaks the beginning of June. 1827 Retrosp. Rev. 1 245 (table) Lithoria, Fab. Rubricollis. Red neck. 2. A European rove beetle, Rugilus fragilis, with a slender red thorax. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Staphylinidae > member of (rove-beetle) rove beetle1771 redneck1872 staphylinid1965 1872 J. G. Wood Insects at Home 81 The present species is one of the few Brachelytra that has a popular name. It is called the Red-neck, on account of the bright-red colour of the thorax. II. Slang uses. 3. Originally North American (usually derogatory). Originally: a poorly educated white person working as an agricultural labourer or from a rural area in the southern United States, typically considered as holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes. Now also more generally: any unsophisticated or poorly educated person, esp. one holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes.Quot. 1830 may represent a more specialized use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [noun] > person mumpsimus1530 inveteratist1715 reactionary1799 statu quo-ite1816 retrograde1825 redneck1830 stationary1831 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactionist1834 retrogradist1836 retrogressionist1848 mountainy man1851 misoneist1891 reactionarist1907 blimp1934 Neanderthal1966 hard hat1970 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > American wool hat1794 redneck1830 swamp Yankee1941 1830 A. Royall Southern Tour I. 148 This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville. 1891 in Amer. Speech 76 435 Primary on the 25th. And the ‘rednecks’ will be there... And the ‘hayseeds’,..they'll be there, too. 1904 Dial. Notes 2 420 Redneck, an uncouth countryman. ‘The hill-billies came from the hills, and the rednecks from the swamps.’ 1913 J. Davis Life & Speeches iii. 42 If you red-necks or hill billies ever come to Little Rock be sure and come to see me—come to my house. 1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! 122 Rich and poor, aristocrat and redneck. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Aug. 491/4 The ugly faces and..the uglier actions of a handful of red-necks, crackers, tar-heels and other poor white trash here and there in the South. 1969 Observer 7 Dec. 25/3 They [sc. communes] all shared two experiences: the search for new values, and attention from local rednecks and the police. 1977 D. James Spy at Evening x. 71 Middle-class rednecks like you..get all worked up about it. 1991 J. Waters Jiving at Crossroads xvi. 157 The media line was that his was the politics of the stroke, the fix, the parish pump, of graft, crookery and whatever you're having yourself; he was the archetypal rural redneck, corrupted by power. 2005 New Yorker 3 Jan. 12/3 Her stories about ass-kicking and rebel-yelling may not prove she's the redneck she claims she is. 4. English regional (chiefly northern) and U.S. regional (chiefly north Midland and western). derogatory. A Roman Catholic; (also) an Irish person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland IrishmanOE Ireis1297 hooded mana1464 Mac1518 Irish1553 Teague?1661 bog-trotter1682 Milesian1682 dear joy1688 Teaguelander1689 paddy1714 bog-lander1736 bog-stalkera1758 brogueneer1758 paddywhack1773 Pat1796 West Briton1805 Irisher1807 Patlander1820 Greek1823 Mick1850 redneck1852 Grecian1853 mickeyc1854 Mike1859 harp1904 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] papist1528 Romanist1534 Roman1537 Romist1543 papistic1545 popestant1549 flesh-maker1551 mass-monger1551 Romish1551 Pope catholicc1554 popeling1563 catholic1570 Romish Catholic1571 popera1577 Pope worshipper1579 papane1581 Roman Catholic1581 Cacolike1582 Cartholic1582 papisha1595 Babylonian1603 papal1611 popinian1613 Papalin1616 Romulist1620 papicolist1633 western1640 papagan1641 universalist1644 red-letter man1677 RC1691 Azymite1728 papalist1752 craw-thumper1786 catholicist1812 papisher1817 pontifical1832 Romanite1839 dogan1847 mickey1851 redneck1852 mackerel-snatcher1855 Latin1867 Romanensian1885 Roman candle1897 Mick1902 Mick Dooley1905 Mickey Doo1905 left-footer1911 Pape1927 right-footer1929 Doolan1940 tyke1941 Tim1958 mackerel-snapper1960 Teague1971 Mickey Doolan1972 1852 Times 2 July 5/6 The reply was, ‘They are b—— red necks’ (Papists). 1865 T. J. Potter Percy Grange (ed. 2) i. ii. 42 Incited..by the evil passions which had been stirred up in our breasts, we began to cry out ‘Papist’, and ‘Red-neck’. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 2/3 ‘Red-neck’ used to be applied to Roman Catholics in Lancashire as a term of opprobrium. 1929 A. Ellis Life Ordinary Woman 202 George starts to complain that it was run by a bunch of ‘red necks’,..‘flannel mouths’, ‘Micks’—all names for Irishmen. 1948 R. L. Tobin Golden Opinions 109 ‘Oysters!’ said Malloy. ‘A feast! Maybe I am too harsh with you, Murphy, even if you are a herring-snapping redneck.’ 5. South African (usually derogatory). = rooinek n. Dict. S. Afr. Eng. (1996) records this use as obsolescent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > British rooinek1891 redneck1896 1896 Cent. Mag. July 450/2 They are very prejudiced, and the strongest of their prejudices, next to that against Roman Catholics,..is against the English, whom they call ‘red-necks’. 1900 A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii Rooinek, ‘Red~neck’, in reference originally to some merinos introduced by an English farmer into the Free State, and marked with a red brand on the neck. These were spoken of as red-necks—an expression afterwards extended to the English themselves, and then as a term of contempt to the British troops in red uniform. 1936 R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 111 To find a red-neck cheap upon this day You do not need to wander far away. 1972 J. McClure Caterpillar Cop ii. 18 What's with this Red~neck?.. Another bloody English immigrant? B. adj. (chiefly attributive). Originally U.S. (usually derogatory). Of, relating to, or designating a redneck; characteristic of a redneck or rednecks (sense A. 3); reactionary, bigoted. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [adjective] hidebound1603 bigot1623 bigotish1652 bigoted1660 bigoticala1670 bigotic1678 intolerating1711 intolerant1765 chauvinist1877 redneck1938 chauvinistic1975 shut-minded1977 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > dislike of change, reaction > [adjective] retrograde?1518 hidebound1603 tradition-bound1660 tradition-loving1660 tradition-ridden1660 mumpsimus1680 stickfast1803 arriéré1814 stick-in-the-mud1832 reactive1836 reactionary1847 reactionist1848 misoneistic1891 red-necked1896 Blimpian1935 blimpish1938 redneck1938 1938 Port Arthur (Texas) News 24 Sept. 2/4 (heading) Former wife to race Mississippi's Bilbo for seat in senate by refining his redneck platform tricks. 1954 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 20 336 The rustic radicals of the forest and the redneck pea pickers of the hill country rose again to follow protest programs. 1961 D. Alexander Bloodstain xi. 134 You should never have come out here alone. This is redneck country. Every man in every one of these houses is a Night Rider. 1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 102/3 He seems Southern redneck—a common man who works outdoors in the sun—to the soul. 1989 W. Deverell Mindfield 61 He was an east-end precinct shop steward; he had lots of rank-and-file redneck support, and was assumed by some to be management's fink. 1994 High Life (Brit. Airways) Nov. 28/1 Oddly, the Benny Hill Show , originally aimed at the redneck segment, eventually captivated audiences at every level. 1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 46/4 Clint..seems at first like the stereotyping redneck Afrikaaner, somebody who..has made no concessions to the new era. Compounds red-neck moth n. rare (now historical) the red-necked footman, Atolmis rubricollis. ΚΠ 1802 Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 159 Phalaena rubricollis. Red-neck M[oth]. Black; the neck of a blood-red colour; the abdomen yellow. 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 174 The thorax also is black, but the part nearest the head, termed the collar, is red, hence the common English name Red-neck moth given to it by Harris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1773
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