bloodnut

plural bloodnuts · alternative blood nut · alternative blood-nut

1. AustraliainformalA person with red hair, a redhead.

   He was a pugnacious bloodnut with a droll wit and a rollup fag on his lip.

   2001, Tim Winton, Dirt Music, page 185

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   “Red” his mates called him: a wild bloodnut like his father, and like his late uncles before Tobruk sands claimed them.

   2006, Bill Collopy, House of Given, page 13

   He looked younger, thinner, was pale and unshaven, the image of a man on a bender, complete with a red-haired partner in crime. ‘I say, Howard, your chief chemist would look ree-mahr-kable on a polo pony, don′t think?’ said the bloodnut, who reeked of alcohol and stale tobacco.

   2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page