red Ned
English
Noun
- (Australia, colloquial) Cheap or poor-quality red wine. [from 20th c.]
- 1977, Gerry Bostock, “Here Comes the Nigger”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 70:
- VERNA: And get him to pick up a flagon o' Red. [She goes toward the bathroom door and turns.] Ya know what they say about the Old Red Ned…puts lead in ya pencil!
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