right-wingern.
/ˌrʌɪtˈwɪŋə/, U.S. /ˌraɪtˈwɪŋər/ 1. Sport. A person who plays in a right-wing position. Cf. right wing n. 3.
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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
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centre fielder1865
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midfield1976
1882 Weekly Standard & Express (Blackburn) 25 Feb. 3/1 Rostron played centre on this occasion and he acted very well alongside M'Guire. The little right winger by dint of a fast shot eluded the vigilance of Wilson for a second time.
1911 Times 24 Apr. 15/2 The exception was Rutherford, the Newcastle right winger, whose grim and gallant efforts to force a goal were the most refreshing feature of the game.
1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 13/3 In 20-year-old Brian Siddall..Stoke appear to have found a right-winger of unbounded promise.
1975 Cincinnati Mag. Oct. 60/1 In hockey, you start with a capable goalie, develop a forward line (center, plus an offensive left and right winger) and put together two solid defensemen.
1993 Hockey News (Toronto) 5 Feb. 17/3 This is the 14th consecutive season the right winger has reached the 30-goal plateau.
2008 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 2 Apr. Sidmouth's three-quarters were seeing plenty of the ball and this gave right winger Oli Tollerfield the opportunity to show his pace in scoring a second try.
2. Also with capital initial. A member of the right wing of a political group or party; a person who advocates or supports conservative views or principles.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > adherent of
praetorian1647
illiberal1818
rightist1894
right-winger1920
fascist1921
righty1961
establishmentarian1962
New Rightist1977
neo-con1979
1920 Proc. Judiciary Comm. of Assembly (State of N.Y.) II. 1265 They are ‘Right Wingers’ and ‘Centrists’ because the exigencies of the ‘Left Wing’ require it.
1928 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. J. Stalin Leninism I. 322 They hesitate between embracing the tenets of Leninism and throwing in their lot with the right-wingers.
1960 News Chron. 1 July 4/3 The back-bench Right-wingers want a strong-man Chancellor.
1973 D. Kyle Suvarov Affair iv. 36 ‘Why do I represent the Russians?’ he would ask. ‘Because they want me to. Though why they pick a right-winger like me I can't imagine.’
1989 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 13 Mar. 6 Rightwingers like Carel Boshoff, trying desperately to establish a utopian Kalaharistan for an endangered Afrikaner species.
2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 15 Mar. a17 [Adam] Smith's distorted image as a rigid right winger sits uncomfortably with Scots' perception of themselves as a social-democratic nation.
Derivatives
right-ˈwingery n. colloquial (somewhat depreciative) the politics or principles characteristic of conservatives, or of those on the right wing of any party.
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1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering 306 Mr. Douglas Jerrold stands out from the hardboiled crowd: he is the brains of the Right. I think he is the Sotelo of English right-wingery.
1992 New Republic 7 Sept. 50/1 Undiluted right-wingery of a simpler sort was on tap at Monday's ‘Christian Coalition God and Country Rally’.
2004 Independent 27 Oct. 31/5 As so often with New Labour, Blunkettian right-wingery is concealing (and distracting from) some decent progressive policies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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