ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Redleg

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Redleg is a noun meaning A bird, the redshank.

Meaning

A bird, the redshank.

More Meanings

  1. A bird, the turnstone.
  2. A plant in the buckwheat family, the lady's thumb.
  3. (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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shorebird, red-leg, redshank, shank, spot-red, spotshank.

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