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单词 red-faced
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red-facedadj.

Brit. /ˈrɛdˌfeɪst/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˈfeɪst/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and faced adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., faced adj.1
Etymology: < red adj. + faced adj.1
1. Of a person: that has a red face resulting from drinking, an overrich diet, or (temporarily) from anger, embarrassment, shame, exertion, etc. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [adjective]
redOE
ruddya1300
red-faced1579
cherry-cheeked1586
rose-cheeked1593
red-cheeked1602
murrey1623
florid1650
sanguine1684
sanguine-complexioned1692
apple-faced1781
apple-cheeked1827
pippin-faced1836
lobsterish1914
the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > blushing with shame or modesty > [adjective]
rosy1593
blushing1609
blushful1611
blushy1865
red-faced2002
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 373 He was somewhat geuen to be redde faced.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. ii. 33 For Bardolph, hee is white-liuer'd, and red-fac'd . View more context for this quotation
1661 S. Pepys Diary 5 May (1970) II. 94 Mr. Creed and I went to the red-faced parsons church.
1713 J. Tillard Let. 16 Feb. in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1898) IV. 81 Ye most redfaced Topers in either university.
1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl II. xiv. 210 I dare say she was praying and crying for the poor red faced old gentlewoman.
1829 B. Hall Trav. N. Amer. I. 349 A village of birch~bark wigwams, thinly inhabited by a dirty set of red-faced inhabitants.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) v. 108 But red-faced war has rods of steel and fire.
1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer i. iv. 102 I remember seeing him once, a red-faced old man with long white hair and a silk skullcap over his baldspot.
1986 L. Garfield December Rose iii. 17 Round the corner came the object of their mockery. It was Mister Roberts, wobbling and hobbling and red-faced with rage!
1997 J. Coe House of Sleep (1998) xvi. 289 ‘Yes, yes, I'm fine,’ he was saying, red-faced and gasping for breath.
2002 Times 22 May i. 5/7 He said: ‘I really am embarrassed by this. Red-faced just does not come into it.’
2. Of animals, esp. in the names of birds and monkeys.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having particular colour face
red-faced1776
the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [adjective] > red- or rust-coloured > red-headed > red-faced
red-faced1882
1776 P. Brown Nouvelles Illustr. de Zool. 60 Red-faced Finch.
1782 D. Henry Hist. Descr. Tower of London 22 A red-faced monkey from the coast of Malabar.
1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 340 The Red-faced Flycatcher is found in Siberia.
1882 Proc. Zool. Soc. App. 798 Red-faced Saki (Brachyurus rubicundus).
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Red a. Redface, the red-faced lovebird.
1913 Proc. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 17 221 (heading) A Sarcosporidian occurring in the red-faced African mouse bird.
1959 Amer. Anthropologist 61 592 Six red-faced monkeys have been released on one of the numerous uninhabited islets scattered along the shore of Japan.
1998 Condor 100 512/2 Here we focus on Red-faced Warblers..a small, forest dwelling, insectivorous Neotropical migrant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1579
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