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bloodnut

noun

Etymology

From blood (“red”) + nut (“head”).

  1. inherited from *hnuts✻
  2. inherited from *hnut✻
  3. inherited from hnutu
  4. inherited from note
  5. compounded as bloodnut — “blood + nut”

Definitions

  1. A person with red hair, a redhead.

    • He was a pugnacious bloodnut with a droll wit and a rollup fag on his lip.
    • “Red” his mates called him: a wild bloodnut like his father, and like his late uncles before Tobruk sands claimed them.

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