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ruddy (rud′ē)

adjective -·dier, -·di·est

  1. having a healthy red color a ruddy complexion
  2. red or reddish

  3. Etymology: euphemism for bloody

    Brit., Informal confounded: an intensive: also used adverbially

Etymology: ME rudi < OE rudig < rudu, red: see rudd

ruddy Related Forms
rud′·di·ness noun
ruddy Synonyms

ruddy

modif.

rosy, reddish, bronzed; see red.

ruddy Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • just: Just ruddy guess Dessert isn't Dessert without Second Helpings.

Modifies a noun

  • complexion: Height 5ft 5¼ ins - ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, nose inclined to left, diagonal scar on left eyebrow.
  • darter: The majority of the dragonfly species recorded in London, including the emerald damselfly and the ruddy darter, also favor this habitat.
  • turnstone: Ongoing dialog with knots ruddy turnstones has seen its.
  • duck: Each ruddy duck you shoot or poison is a real death.
  • cheek: Freddie is bustling in, all sweat and ruddy cheeks because teh sun has come out.
  • glow: In the ruddy fire glow her fair face looked radiant with joy.

Used with adjective complement

  • have: So hip I 've never ruddy heard of them!
ruddy Quotes

Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the L said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

—Bible (Old Testament)

O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, ally the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou,O Summer, Beneath our oaks hast slept while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

—Blake,William

Browse dictionary entries near ruddy

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  5. ‹ rudderpost
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  7. ‹ rudd
  8. ‹ rudbeckia
  9. ‹ ruction
  10. ‹ ruckus
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