redbone

See also: Redbone

English

Etymology

From red +‎ bone.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛd.boʊn/

Noun

redbone (plural redbones)

1. (US) A dark-red or tan coonhound.
2. (US, Louisiana) An African American with light skin with red undertones.
   • 1936, LA bulletin: Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University & A. & M. College, numbers 268-293, page 13:

     Redbones are commonly supposed to represent a fusion of the Indian, Negro, and white races […]

   • 2009, Janet Allured, Judith F. Gentry, Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, page 122:

     The store attracted countless colorful characters, including Native Americans, wild-cowboy Texans, Chinese laborers, and “redbones,” the offspring of African Americans and Native Americans.

   • 2012, Gerald Duff, Dirty Rice: A Season in the Evangeline League, page 238:

     I can joke about being a redbone, and I am that. But most folks don't make no distinction between a redbone and a colored man, unless it's to their benefit.

Translations

dog breed

• Finnish: punainenpesukarhukoira

See also

• high yellow
• yellow bone

Anagrams

• deboner, enrobed