redskin
Noun
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Noun
redskin (plural redskins)
- (now, sometimes, considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An American Indian, a Native American.
- 1699?, Henry Smith or Samuel Smith or a relative, possibly quoting another colonist, in a letter quoted by a descendant (which, however, Ives Goddard argues is fake ↗):
- Ye first Meeting House was solid mayde to withstande ye wicked onsaults of the Red Skins.
- 1699?, Henry Smith or Samuel Smith or a relative, possibly quoting another colonist, in a letter quoted by a descendant (which, however, Ives Goddard argues is fake ↗):
- French: Peau-Rouge
- German: (male or female) Rothaut
- Italian: pellerossa
- Portuguese: pele-vermelha
- Russian: красноко́жий
- Spanish: piel roja
redskin (plural redskins)
- (anarchism, communism) An anticapitalist skinhead.
- The above is the coat of arms of the Red & Anarchist Skinheads, a left‐wing splinter of the SHARP group, formed in 1993. It grew out of influences from the redskin culture in England.
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