right-winger

See also: rightwinger

English

Noun

right-winger (plural right-wingers)

1. (politics) A person who belongs to the political right.
   • 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:

     Analyses that used to exist only in arcane feminist journals are now common among right wingers and are being institutionalized as law and public policy.

2. A member of the right wing of a party or group.
3. (sports) A winger who plays on the right.

Synonyms

• rightist
• rightie, righty (UK, colloquial)
• rightoid (derogatory)
• reich winger (derogatory)

Antonyms

• left-winger

Related terms

• right wing
• right-wing

Translations

person who belongs to the political right

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 右翼分子 (yòuyì fènzi)

• Finnish: oikeistolainen (fi)
• French: personne de droite f
• Galician: dereitista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: მემარჯვენე (memarǯvene)
• German: Rechter (de) m, Rechte (de) f, Rechtsaußen (de) m, Person vom rechten Flügel f
• Hindi: दक्षिणपंथी (dakṣiṇpanthī)
• Hungarian: jobboldali (hu)
• Portuguese: direitista (pt)
• Russian: пра́вый (ru) m (právyj), пра́вая (ru) f (právaja)
• Spanish: derechista (es) m or f, momio (es) m (colloquial, pejorative, Chile), momia (es) f (colloquial, pejorative, rare, Chile), (ser) de derecha, (ser) de derechas

sports: winger on the right

• Finnish: oikean laidan pelaaja
• French: ailier droit m, ailière droite f
• German: Rechtsaußen (de) m