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单词 right wing
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right wingn.adj.

Brit. /ˌrʌɪt ˈwɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌraɪt ˈwɪŋ/
Forms: see right adj. and int. and wing n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: right adj., wing n.
Etymology: < right adj. + wing n., originally after classical Latin ala dextra < ala ala n.1 + dextra , feminine of dexter dexter adj.
A. n.
1. Military. The right side of an army or of a naval fleet in battle (as viewed from the rear). Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > division
battle1330
left winga1450
right winga1450
parsmenta1522
partimenta1522
battalion1589
division1600
battaliaa1616
fight1622
army unit1847
mobile unit1896
air arm1913
reaction force1923
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > wing
right winga1450
point1550
wing1622
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) 144 Þan assayle þou his lyfte wynge wiþ þy riȝt wynge[L. dextram..alam].
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxx. f. xlii He chaunged the order of his soudyours: and on the ryght wynge..he ordayned as it were a forwarde enforced with a threfolde subsidy or socoures.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 50/2 in Chron. I [Gildas sayth] There was..no square battell, no right wing, nor any other prouision appoynted.
1645 R. Overton Sacred Decretall 14 Wee quickly plac'd Jockey in the right wing, Sir John in the left wing, and Old Nick in the Battalia.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 47 He falls a fighting with his Text, and makes a pitch'd Battle of it, dividing it into the Right-wing and Left-wing.
1718 D. Jones Compl. Hist. Turks I. iv. iii. 409 The Center and right Wing of the Fleet was overthrown by the Christians.
1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VIII. 280 The right wing was closed by four thousand slingers.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 167 The Cæsar, who conducted in person his right wing, depended on the dexterity of his archers, and the weight of his cuirassiers.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxv. 402 Eighty Milesian ships formed the right wing, one hundred Chian ships the centre, and sixty Samian ships the left wing.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iv. 149 The European divisions were directed severally against the left and right wings.
1864 J. Fitch Ann. Army Cumberland 395 Our right wing was now thoroughly broken, and its retiring divisions almost doubled backward upon the left.
1953 W. S. Churchill Let. 25 Feb. in P. Boyle Churchill-Eisenhower Corr. (1990) 28 All the Egyptian theatre lies behind Ridgway's right wing.
2000 J. J. Reid Crisis Ottoman Empire vi. 326 The entire right wing depended upon the holding of this position, which, if abandoned, would fold under Russian attacks.
2. Politics. = right n. 16c.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right
centre-right1822
right1822
right wing1841
Christian Right1947
New Right1966
alt-right2009
1841 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 59 296 The right wing of the Infidels and Radicals, and the left of the popish followers of factious demagogues.
1844 Bibliotheca Sacra & Theol. Rev. Feb. 211 Those of the right wing, the conservative side, are constantly declining in numbers.
1889 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 3 207 The predominating influence has clearly moved from the extreme right wing, and is now to be found well over upon the left.
1926 in K. Laybourn Brit. Trade Unionism (1991) 138 The Right Wing in the General Council bears direct responsibility for throwing away the workers' weapons and leaving them almost defenceless against the capitalists.
1940 W. Temple Thoughts in War-time iii. 23 The Right Wing tends to emphasise..the distinction between the Government and the community and apply to the Government the ethics of trusteeship.
1974 J. White tr. N. Poulantzas Fascism & Dictatorship iii. 126 The Liberal Party itself was in an increasing state of decomposition, with Salandra's right wing now dominant.
1996 Independent 19 Sept. 13/1 Mr. Knight is a wheeling, dealing politician from the Labour Party's right wing.
3. In various team sports.
a. The right side of a team or area of play; those players positioned on this side regarded collectively. Cf. right n. 16d.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > players or positions
wing-back1734
goalkeeper1789
outfielder1855
quarter1857
centre fielder1865
outfield1867
quarterback1867
right1867
centre1868
left wing1871
left-back1873
left half-back1873
centre forward1874
left-centre1877
right-centre1877
centre back1878
centre half-back1879
forward1879
back1880
right wing1880
right half-back1881
goaltender1882
right-winger1882
wing1882
centre half1884
left winger1884
inside1886
half1887
custodian1888
left half1888
midfielder1888
left wing1889
right half1889
centreman1890
midfield1890
outside right1890
outfieldsman1891
goalie1894
winger1896
infield1897
inside forward1897
inside right1897
outside forward1897
outside1898
outside left1900
rearguard1904
pivot1911
wing-man1942
keeper1957
link1958
linkman1963
midfield1976
1880 Times 19 Feb. 10/3 The game was chiefly in favour of Lloyd's, who won by two goals to one. The following are the sides:..A. Letts and F. Janson, right wing.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 419/2 at Association Football The left back and half-back deal with the opposing right wing.
1900 in B. James England v Scotland (1969) iii. 72 For England, Crabtree was cleverly holding the Scottish right wing in check and showing grand form.
1947 Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 3/2 Appearing in their league side on the right wing and, later, at centre forward he became very popular with the Shepherds Bush spectators.
1974 M. Weir Women's Hockey for Seventies 96 Before the ball is hit the right striker is sprinting out to the right wing.
1983 K. Dryden Game 10 Lapointe steals the puck and streaks up right wing.
1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Soccer) 6 When Leto's junior forward Catherine Holsopple broke free on the right wing—some 15 yards from the goal—Hormilla came charging out at her.
1999 H. Redknapp & D. McGovern 'Arry (new ed.) ii. 40 With me supplying crosses from the right wing and John Sissons from the left, Martin scored four goals.
b. A position on the (far) right of the field of play, typically an attacking role towards the front of a team; a player who occupies this position. Cf. right-winger n. 1.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > types of player
field1816
fielder1824
defender1851
scrimmager1877
attacker1884
tackler1891
shooter1901
passer1905
right wing1908
ball hawk1917
screener1923
striker1963
1908 Times 8 Feb. 11/3 The strong, straightforward running of W. N. Lapage..should make him an effective right wing.
1940 Amer. Boy Feb. 4/3 Every moment he had his eye on that varsity forward wall. He wanted a berth there—Sam Dixon's berth at right wing.
1969 R. D. Eagleson & I. McKie Terminol. Austral. Nat. Football iii. 10 Right wing, a variant for right centre.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. b22/6 Ehman, 49, played right wing for eight years in the National Hockey League for Boston, Toronto, Detroit and California until his retirement in 1971.
2003 D. Mortimer Classic Rugby Clangers 180 He delivered a beautiful pass back inside to Nigel Francis, our right wing, who ran from almost halfway to score.
B. adj.
1. Of the nature of, characterized by, or holding views towards the right of a spectrum of opinion; conservative; spec. of, belonging to, or supporting the political right (right n. 16c).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right
illiberal1649
white?1740
right1794
conservative1802
centre-right1822
agricolous1825
hunkerish1857
right wing1857
rightward1887
rightist1894
rightwards1931
right-of-centre1937
establishmentarian1962
righty1970
neo-con1979
New Rightist1981
1857 Christian Examiner Nov. 435 Among the right-wing Hegelians, Göschel asserts that Christ was the ideal of humanity, actualized.
1905 W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) v. 124 If the formula ever became canonical, it would certainly develop both right-wing and left-wing interpreters.
1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 348 Jacob Menzies had been clubbed almost insensible on the picket-line. Jacob was the ‘right-wing’ brother..who had been earning his education by pressing students' pants.
1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier xii. 243 The thinking person, by intellect usually left-wing but by temperament often right-wing, hovers at the gate of the Socialist fold.
1957 Economist 26 Oct. 299/2 President Castillo's strong-arm methods steered the country between communism and right-wing nationalism.
1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Oct. 10/7 Les Berets Blancs, a semi-secret, ultra-right-wing religious grouping bounced out of [the] Creditiste Party several years ago, is still alive and preaching invasion of communism.
1990 E. Feldman Looking for Love x. 121 If he knows so damn much, what's he doing writing for that right-wing rag?
2004 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 25 Jan. 16/4 Some interpreters of the New Deal lean left, some are centrist, some are right wing, and this is all to the good: let a hundred flowers bloom.
2. Sport. Positioned on the right side of a sports team or area of play, esp. in an attacking role; of, relating to, or executed from this position.
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1882 in T. Charles-Edwards & B. Richardson They saw it Happen (1958) 299 Of the Rovers forwards the right wing pair first became prominent.
1901 Encycl. Sport II. 419/2 The left back and left half-back attend to the opposing right wing forwards.
1945 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Nature i. iii. 91 As a right wing three-quarter is trying not simply to play football but to play it in a way appropriate to a right wing three-quarter.
1993 Belfast Tel. (BNC) Mar. Clarke got his second goal in the 60th minute when he met a well-directed right-wing cross from Wallace.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Dec. 5 As a footballer he was dubbed a rabbit because of his burrowing right-wing runs.

Derivatives

right-ˈwingish adj. having the qualities or characteristics of right-wing politics or ideology; cf. right-wingy adj..
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1945 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 27 July 4/1 The people of the United Kingdom have, by their verdict in the first general election in ten years, embraced a right-wingish brand of socialism.
1983 D. W. Reinhard Republican Right since 1945 v. 94 The Eisenhower crusade sounded increasingly right-wingish as it came out of the Midwest.
2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 28 Sept. 21 A sporting venue in a bluecollar northern town with right-wingish tendencies.
right-ˈwingism n. right-wing politics or ideology; support for these.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > attitudes of
servilism1821
conservatism1832
conservativeness1832
conservativism1834
hunkerism1845
rightism1934
right-wingism1951
1951 W. Lewis Rotting Hill vii. 239 A seedy pair—right-wingism does not pay.
1962 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 12 Feb. 4/6 A meeting of the American Jewish Congress which had been discussing right-wingism in the USA.
1978 Listener 13 July 59/4 An..irrational right-wingism, which eschews all 19th-century liberalism.
1997 G. D. Morgan Toward Amer. Sociol. xv. 116 Liberal education had to be downgraded if the growth of right-wingism was to be promoted.
right-ˈwingy adj. colloquial of, relating to, or characteristic of right-wing politics or ideology; typically conservative.
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1971 A. Hoffman Steal this Bk. 299 Although right-wingy in tone, this is an excellent guide to security systems, including home protection, unarmed and armed self-defense.
1977 Listener 13 Jan. 60/4 Some people have thought that your heroes are rather snooty and right-wingy and so forth.
2004 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 12 Sept. He also appeared at a right-wingy book promo that was duly noted in the New York Times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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