redleg

See also: red-leg

English

Etymology

red +‎ leg

Noun

redleg (plural redlegs)

  1. A bird, the redshank.
  2. A bird, the turnstone.
  3. A plant in the buckwheat family, lady's thumb.
  4. (Caribbean, derogatory) A member of a class of poor white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.

References
  • redleg in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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