redhead

See also: Redhead

English

A redhead

A redhead duck

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdˌhɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛdhɛd

Noun

redhead (plural redheads)

1. 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.

2. A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
3. A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
4. Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
5. red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps)
6. red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus)
7. red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus)
8. red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)
9. (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

• redheaded
• redhead grass

 

Translations

red-haired person

• Afrikaans: rooikop
• Basque: kaskagorri, ilegorri
• Catalan: pèl-roig (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅髮／红发 (hóngfā), 紅髮的人／红发的人 (hóngfā de rén)

• Czech: zrzek m, zrzka f
• Dutch: roodharige (nl), rooie (nl)
• Esperanto: rufulo, ruĝharulo
• Finnish: punapää (fi), punatukka
• French: roux (fr) m, rousse (fr) f
• German: Rotkopf m, Rotschopf (de) m, Rothaariger m, Rothaarige f
• Greek: κοκκινομάλλης (el) m (kokkinomállis), κοκκινομάλλα (el) f (kokkinomálla)
• Hebrew: ג'ינג'י (he) m (jinji), ג'ינג'ית f, אדמוני (he) m (admoni), אדמונית (he) f
• Hungarian: vöröshajú (hu), vörös (hu)
• Irish: rua (ga) m (of both males and females), fear rua m, bean rua f
• Italian: testarossa f, pel di carota m
• Japanese: 赤毛 (ja) (あかげ, akage)
• Latin: rūfus (la) m
• Latvian: rudmatis m, rudmate f
• Manx: ben ruy f, fer ruy m, kione jiarg m
• Norman: rousseau m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødtopp m

  Nynorsk: raudtopp m

• Portuguese: ruivo (pt) m, ruiva f
• Russian: ры́жий (ru) m (rýžij), ры́жая (ru) f (rýžaja), рыжеволо́сый (ru) m (ryževolósyj), рыжеволо́сая (ru) f (ryževolósaja)
• Scottish Gaelic: ruadh m (of both males and females), fear ruadh m, bean ruadh f
• Sicilian: pilu russu m or f, pilu-russu m or f
• Slovak: ryšavec m, ryšiak m
• Spanish: pelirrojo (es) m, pelirroja (es) f, colorín (es) m, colorina f, choco (es) m
• Vietnamese: người tóc (hung hung) đỏ (lit: "red-haired person)
• Walloon: rosse (wa) m or f, rossea (wa) m, rossete (wa) f
• Welsh: cochen f, cochyn m

Aythya americana

• Dutch: Amerikaanse tafeleend (nl) m
• Finnish: amerikanpunasotka (fi)
• French: fuligule à tête rouge m
• German: Rotkopfente f
• Navajo: naalʼeełí bitsiiʼ halchíiʼii

milkweed Asclepias curassavica

• Finnish: punasilkkiyrtti

Chinese red-headed centipede — see Chinese red-headed centipede

Emberiza bruniceps

• Finnish: ruskopääsirkku (fi)

Callicebus regulus

Sarcogyps calvus

• Finnish: kalmokorppikotka (fi)

Melanerpes erythrocephalus

• Finnish: punapäätikka (fi)

See also

• auburn
• freckleface
• ginger
• ranga
• red
• rusty
• Red hair

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