redleg

noun — 4 senses

redleg

noun

Etymology From red + leg.

1

A bird, the redshank.

2

A bird, the turnstone.

3

A plant in the buckwheat family, the lady's thumb.

4

Caribbean, Derogatory A member of a class of impoverished white people, originally from Ireland, Scotland and the west of England, now living on Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and a few other Caribbean islands.

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