Redcap
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Redcap is a noun meaning (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
Meaning
(British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
More Meanings
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- (British, archaic) A European goldfinch, Eurasian goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- A breed of poultry.
Example Sentences
After boggarts, they studied Red Caps, nasty little goblinlike creatures that lurked where there had been bloodshed […]
"What's a Brownie?" you say. Oh, it's a kind of a sort of a Bogle, but it isn't so cruel as a Redcap! What! you don't know what's a Bogle or a Redcap!
1876: Porter & Coates (pub.), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle, And beside him Old Redcap sly; — "Now, tell me, thou sprite, who are meikle of might, The death that I must die?"
Word Forms
- redcaps
- red cap
- red-cap
Synonyms for redcap
Depending on context, synonyms include porter.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include porter, redcoat, royal, regular, mountie, roughrider.
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