Meaning

4 senses
  1. A bird, the redshank.

  2. A bird, the turnstone.

  3. A plant in the buckwheat family, the lady's thumb.

  4. (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.

Origin

From red + leg.

From red + leg.

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