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English
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Etymology
[edit]Bahuvrihi compound of red head.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdˌhɛd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdhɛd
Noun
[edit]redhead (plural redheads)
- A person with red hair.
- Synonyms: ginger, coppertop, bloodnut, Bluey; see also Thesaurus:redhead
- 2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling:
- I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.
- A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
- A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
- Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
- red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps)
- red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus)
- red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
- red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
- (film, television, theater) A kind of 800-watt lamp.
- Coordinate term: blonde
- 2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63:
- Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]red-haired person
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Aythya americana
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milkweed Asclepias curassavica
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Chinese red-headed centipede — see Chinese red-headed centipede
Emberiza bruniceps
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Callicebus regulus
Sarcogyps calvus
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Melanerpes erythrocephalus
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