red-eyen.
/ˈrɛdʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌaɪ/ I. Literal senses.
1.
a. The rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus erythrophthalmus (rudd)
shallowc1050
rudd1526
red-eyea1672
finscale1677
redtail1740
a1672 F. Willughby Ichthyogr. (1686) Tab. v. 10 Red eye, Belgis, i.e. oculus Coccineus.
a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii. 116 Rootaug..The Red-Eye.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling 55 The Red-Eye..is very much like a Bream, but thicker.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 412 To this second division [sc. Cyprinidæ] belong four British species, the largest of which, the Rudd or Red-eye, is a very common fish in Europe.
1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 May 273/2 The rudd, or red-eye, a beautiful active fish, is very abundant.
1990 R. Minervini et al. in W. L. T. van Densen et al. Managem. Freshwater Fisheries xxv. 295 Red eye or rudd. This species feeds mainly on vegetation. It is considered a poor quality fish and has no market value.
b. U.S. Any of various freshwater sunfishes of the family Centrarchidae; (now esp.) (more fully redeye bass) Micropterus coosae, which has orange fins and is native to parts of the south-eastern United States.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of
red-eye1820
mountain trout1884
goggle-eye1897
1820 Rafinesque in Smithson. Coll. (1877) XIII. ix. i. 20 Red-Eye Sunfish, Icthelis Erythrops.
1877 Jordan in Smithson. Coll. XIII. ix. i. 22 The name ‘Red-Eye’ in the region which this fish is supposed to inhabit is chiefly applied to the Rock-Bass (Ambloplites rupestris).
1909 C. F. Holder & D. S. Jordan Fish Stories 240 Some of these [sunfish] are called blue-gills, dollardee, red-eye, rock-bass, grass-bass.
1935 L. S. Caine Game Fish of South 3 Large-mouthed Black Bass..Redeye.
1976 T. Tryckare Lore of Sportfishing 102 Warmouth Bass... Other common names..redeye [etc.].
2006 S. M. McGinnis Field Guide Freshwater Fishes Calif. (rev. ed.) 330 Redeye Bass was stocked in a number of middle- and low-elevation rivers and streams in the early 1960's.
2. North American. = red-eyed vireo n. at red-eyed adj. Compounds. Also more fully red-eye vireo.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Vireonidae (vireo) > genus Vireo (red-eye)
whip-tom-kelly1756
red-eye1834
1834 W. B. O. Peabody Life A. Wilson 56 Nothing perhaps exceeds the delicious note of the warbling vireo and the red-eye.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 172 The birds sang quite as in our woods,—the red-eye, red-start, veery, wood-pewee, etc.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. III. 103/2 Mr. Job..photographed several times a female Red-eye solicitously feeding two voracious young Cowbirds.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles II. 252 The red-eye has been called ‘preacher-bird’ because of its unceasing vocal efforts.
1995 Wildlife Soc. Bull. 23 753 (table) Red-eye vireo (Vireo olivaceus).
3. Australian. A black cicada of eastern Australia, Psaltoda moerens, which has red eyes.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Cicadidae > psaltoda moerens (red-eye)
red-eye1904
1904 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 586 The Black Cicada or 'Red-Eye' is seldom found in our gardens, but frequents the trunks and branches of the smooth-stemmed Eucalypts.
1925 Illustr. Austral. Encycl. I. 269/1 Well-known species [of cicada] are the Red-eye..and the Floury Miller.., both names well describing the insect's appearance.
1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 380/1 Other well-known cicadas are the red-eye..and the aptly named cherry-nose.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Domain) 14 Black Princes, Floury Bakers and Red Eyes are around in February, so there's still time for a cicada summer.
4. Medicine. Redness (vascular injection) of the conjunctiva of one or both eyes; esp. that resulting from acute conjunctivitis (= pink-eye n.1 3).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of
psorophthalmia1585
psorophthalmy1656
xerophthalmia1656
ophthalmia neonatorum1835
photophobophthalmia1842
sun blight1848
sand-blight1852
sandy blight1869
blepharoconjunctivitis1890
pink-eye1897
klieg eyes1923
bung eye1933
shipyard eye1943
red-eye1952
1952 Lancet 8 Nov. 944/2 Red eye & its differential diagnosis.
1978 Jrnl. Internat. Med. Res. 6 141 (heading) Tanderil/chloramphenicol eye ointment in the treatment of the ‘Red Eye’ seen in general practice.
2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 28 Mar. a5 The flu was contracted in a mild form of red eye, or conjunctivitis, by a man helping clean up chickens in the second of five barns contaminated.
5. Photography. An unwanted effect in flash photographs whereby the pupils of a subject appear red, caused by light reflected from the blood vessels of the retina, and occurring when the source of the flash is too near the camera lens; frequently attributive. Also (as red eye): an eye that appears red in a photograph for this reason.
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1966 H. Keppler Asahi Pentax Way 240 Highlights in the pupils may show as two glowing red spots... This is the so-called ‘red-eye effect’ typical of on-camera flash technique.
1978 Chicago June 198/2 Pop-out electronic flash lets you stop action in low light. Eliminates ‘red-eye’.
1991 Rolling Stone 28 Nov. 111/4 Novice snapshooters can take crisp photographs, sans red eyes and ghost-white faces.
1995 Which? June 43/2 All the SLRs with a built-in flash, except the Nikon F50, have a red-eye reduction system.
2009 L. Thompson tr. H. Mankell Ital. Shoes ii. 137 Poor-quality coloured pictures from the early 1970s, in the days when everybody had red-eye, and gaped at the photographer like vampires.
II. figurative and in extended use.
6. U.S. slang. Whisky, esp. cheap, poor-quality whisky.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > inferior whisky
red-eye1819
tarantula-juice1861
bug juice1863
Berlin spirit1878
bluestone1880
smoke1904
snakebite1979
1819 J. A. Quitman Diary in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. 42 Whiting and I had to treat to ‘red-eye’ or ‘rot-gut’, as whiskey is here called.
1838 Yale Lit. Mag. 3 12 An Indian tribe that..seldom ever passed the prairie except to sell their skins, and purchase ‘red-eye’.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) I promised the overseer..a demijohn of red-eye if all went straight.
1910 in J. Lomax Cowboy Songs 305 Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut, Drink that red eye, boys.
1957 J. Steinbeck Short Reign of Pippin IV 69 Serving red-eye in shot-glasses.
1976 Observer 5 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 18 (advt.) Most of the liquor to be had [in New Orleans] at that time [sc. 1865] was known as ‘redeye’. Because that's what it did.
2003 Independent 20 Nov. (Review section) 7/2 Duke Philip was real welcoming also... ‘I know you blasted Yanks... Would you care for a shot of red-eye before dinner?’
7. U.S. Military slang. Tomato ketchup. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup > tomato ketchup
tomato ketchup1801
tomato catsup1845
tomato sauce1911
red lead1917
red-eye1923
1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words 56 Red eye for ‘catsup’.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Aug. 10/3 Red-Eye..that great disguise, ketchup.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 423/2 Redeye.., ketchup. W.W.I and W.W.II Armed Forces use.
8. Canadian regional (western). A drink made from beer and tomato juice.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]
three-threads1698
pap-in1748
half-and-half1756
porter cup1790
shandygaff1853
mixed ale1864
cooper1871
black and tan1881
four-half1884
mother-in-law1884
shandy1888
smiler1892
mild-and-bitter1933
red-eye1960
1960 Chicago Sunday Tribune 2 Oct. v. 7/2 Called a Red Eye in Calgary.., it is a mixture of tomato juice and beer.
1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) xiii. 107 ‘I'll have a redeye,’ Lester told the barman, who mixed tomato juice and beer for him, half and half.
1985 C. B. Wine Across Table 116 Nor can they know the lilting joy of a gulp of beer and tomato juice, the popular Red-eye.
2004 K. Colburn & R. Sorensen So You want to be Canad. 74 9 am Order a Calgary Red Eye.
9. U.S. colloquial. A flight on which a passenger cannot expect to get much sleep because of the time of departure or arrival, esp. an overnight flight on a west-to-east route. Frequently attributive.
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [adjective] > type of flight or service
non-scheduled1855
charter1922
standby1946
walk-on1959
red-eye1964
1964 N.Y. Times 3 June 30/4 During the long California campaign, Mr. Goldwater has many times flown the same night flight to Washington. He calls it the ‘red-eye special’.
1972 ‘J. Lange’ Binary 19 Phelps had brought them out to California on a red-eye flight, let them sleep a few hours, then dragged them up for a meeting.
1984 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts (1992) 94 The flight to Seattle was an ordinary red-eye, with sleepy yuppies loosening their ties.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Nov. (Central ed.) w13/1 Now the airlines are adding red-eyes to cities not typically associated with overnight flights.
Compounds
red-eye gravy n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) gravy made by adding liquid (esp. coffee) to the drippings from cooked ham or other cured meat; cf. earlier red gravy n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i). [Probably so called on account of its appearance, before the grease and liquid are combined.]
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > gravy > [noun] > types of
made gravy1730
jus1847
red gravy1887
au jus1903
red-eye gravy1931
sambar1957
1931 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 Apr. 10 a/7 (advt.) Ham Steak A thick, tender, flavory cut..fried in the pan..served with red-eye gravy and steamed rice.
1943 Los Angeles Times 12 May i. 8/1 We talked about them and about Vanderbilt football teams and how good it would be to have another breakfast of Tennessee ham, grits, red-eye gravy and fried sweet potatoes.
1959 Washington Post 29 Oct. d5/1 To the folks in the hominy grits and red-eye gravy belt there is only one game this week—Louisiana State vs. Mississippi.
1977 Time 24 Oct. 27/2 Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee.
2004 J. McCoy Wanted: One Perfect Man ii. 29 Tomas is makin' his special baked ham and mashed potatoes with redeye gravy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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