ginger-hackled
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally used to describe a certain colour or colours in gamecocks. See hackle.
Adjective
[edit]ginger-hackled (not comparable)
- (slang, obsolete) Having reddish or flaxen hair.
- 1865, William Harrison Ainsworth, Jack Sheppard: A Romance, page 113:
- Speak lower. Somebody may be on the watch — perhaps that old ginger-hackled Jew.
- 2014, Jo Ann Brown, A Bride for the Baron, page 39:
- “Lord Meriweather!” came a shout from the hallway. A ginger-hackled footman careened to a stop by the open door.
References
[edit]- Francis Grose (1785) “red haired”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- John Camden Hotten (1873) “having flaxen, light yellow hair”, in The Slang Dictionary