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Definition of ruddy in English: ruddyadjectiveruddiest, ruddier ˈrʌdiˈrədi 1(of a person's face) having a healthy red colour. a cheerful pipe-smoking man of ruddy complexion Example sentencesExamples - He had a mop of blond hair and a ruddy complexion.
- The victim of the first attempted burglary described the intruder as in his mid 30s, with a ruddy complexion, sandy hair, and wearing black gloves and a light shirt.
- At night we returned ruddy faced and tired, but elated by vigorous exercise in such inspiring surroundings.
- The guard's ruddy face flushed and he looked away.
- We were standing outside the Monitor's office in the harsh afternoon sun and now Short, a compact woman with a ruddy complexion, took a drag on her cigarette.
- Reynolds painted his florid, bald, ruddy countenance many times, and for decades less distinguished portraits swung outside countless taverns.
- He nodded to the man, whose ruddy face was turning even redder, and took several steps in my direction.
- His dark blonde hair was soaked with sweat and his face was flushed and ruddy.
- He is described as white, about six feet two inches tall aged in his mid to late 30s. with a large build, a shaved head, a ruddy complexion and a distinctive Liverpool accent.
- Brown eyes stare back at me from beneath black eyebrows above a ruddy face framed by thick black hair which melts into a long, well-groomed beard.
- The suspect is white, 5ft 10 in, of medium build with dark brown receding closely cropped hair, brown eyes and ruddy complexion and has a deep voice with a Yorkshire accent.
- I guess my face was all ruddy and my black hair covered in snow and ice even below the fur-hat, but I wasn't paying any attention to that.
- She had never looked upon the ruddy face of Gryth's oldest son.
- People with fair, freckled skin, a ruddy complexion, or red hair are more susceptible to sunburn than others, but everyone is susceptible to some degree.
- She had black hair and a ruddy face, and was humming merrily as she sliced bread at the table.
- He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
- Linn has pale blue eyes, a ruddy wind-burned face, and a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth.
- She was dressed in a normal housemaid's uniform, but her face was ruddy and she looked like she'd spent her entire life in the country.
- He has a ruddy, open face - he laughs a lot - and an oddly guileless manner.
- The fire in the grate smoked up the room and all faces were ruddy with warmth and intoxication.
Synonyms red, pink, glowing, reddish, pinkish, florid, high-coloured, healthy-looking, aglow, burning, flaming, feverish, rubicund, roseate, rosy - 1.1 Having a reddish colour.
Example sentencesExamples - His immediate impression was one of stifling heat and dim ruddy red light.
- Most of the life in the universe could bask in the ruddy light of red dwarfs.
- As she had predicted, the stain on the back of her skirt did not come out, and in the time she had been sitting, it had faded the red material to ruddy beige.
- A few lights blinked out across the desert-like prairie, a land of strong, ruddy dawns and drawn, bluish-yellow evenings.
- Camp was set up in short order and soon a blazing fire lit the face of the edifice in a ruddy, wavering light.
- The desert coast gave way to the low palms of the Nile delta, and the sea turned ruddy from the fresh water flow of the great river.
- We all turned to see the principal standing there, his face taking on a ruddy color at the sight of the mess.
- So the golden sun brightened the sky and stained the trees and ocean ruddy pink.
Synonyms reddish, red, rosy, rosy-cheeked, pink, pinkish, roseate, rubicund healthy-looking, glowing, fresh flushed, blushing florid, high-coloured archaic sanguine rare erubescent, rubescent red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion, crimson, blood-red, rose-red, pink, roseate
2British informal Used as a euphemism for ‘bloody’ young people today, they're a ruddy shower Example sentencesExamples - I says to him, 'I'm not answering your bloody questions,' I says, 'I've already told your girl out there, I'm not going to ruddy St Mary's and that's that.'
- The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt.
- I don't even ruddy well know where he works, or what he is!
- On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
- ‘If anything's broken, I'm telling you, you can ruddy well pay for it’.
Synonyms complete, total, utter informal damn, damned, blasted, blessed, flaming, confounded, blithering British informal flipping, blinking, blooming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing North American informal goddam, doggone Australian/New Zealand informal plurry British informal, dated bally vulgar slang fucking, frigging Irish vulgar slang fecking
verbruddies, ruddying, ruddied ˈrʌdiˈrədi [with object]Make ruddy in colour. a red flash ruddied the belly of a cloud
Derivatives adverb ˈrʌdɪliˈrədəli rare With a red or reddish appearance. the rising sun shone ruddily Example sentencesExamples - It's now as smooth and gleaming, and as ruddily glowing, as a freshly deforested Alpine slope at sunset.
- I looked back up again at Vitto's ruddily handsome face, and the drops that were falling down on me.
noun ˈrʌdɪnəsˈrədinəs If you're ginger with tendencies towards ruddiness, you lay off the reds. Example sentencesExamples - He's tall, skinny in a beefy way like he's done a lot of hiking or running, and has a ruddiness of cheek that suggests a keen interest in outdoor pursuits.
- At the moment I am using a combination of a yellowish liquid foundation and a pressed base to cover the natural ruddiness of my skin type.
- She was wearing no make-up at all, though it wasn't necessary; for her skin had a natural glow, her cheeks a natural ruddiness, her lips, a natural moisture.
Origin Late Old English rudig, from the base of archaic rud 'red colour'; related to red. red from Old English: An Old English word which shares an ancient root with Latin rufus, Greek eruthros, and Sanskrit rudhira ‘red’. The colour red has traditionally been associated with radical political views, and from the 19th century particularly Communists. During the Cold War, when Americans feared reds under the bed or Communist sympathizers, the expression better dead than red was used to mean that the prospect of nuclear annihilation was preferable to that of a Communist society. The slogan was reversed by nuclear disarmament campaigners of the late 1950s as ‘better red than dead’. Something involving savage or merciless competition might be described as red in tooth and claw. The phrase came from Lord Tennyson's poem ‘In Memoriam’ (1854): ‘Nature, red in tooth and claw’. In Church calendars a saint's day or Church festival was distinguished by being written in red letters. This gives us a red letter day (early 18th century) for a pleasantly memorable, fortunate, or happy day. A less cheering use of red ink was customarily made to enter debit items and balances in accounts —which gives us in the red (early 20th century) to mean in debt or overdrawn. The colour red is supposed to provoke a bull, and is the colour of the cape used by matadors in bullfighting. From this we say that something will be like a red rag to a bull (late 19th century). A red herring is something, especially a clue, which misleads or distracts you. Red herrings have been around since the 15th century and got their colour from being heavily smoked to preserve them. The pungent scent was formerly used to lay a trail when training hounds to follow a scent. The red light district of a town is one with a lot of businesses concerned with sex. The phrase is from the red light traditionally used as the sign of a brothel. See also paint. People have been complaining about red tape, or excessive bureaucracy, since the 1730s. Real red or pinkish-red tape is used to bind together legal and official documents. Americans sometimes talk of not having a red cent to their name. Red got attached to the cent in the mid 19th century and refers to the colour of the copper used to make the one cent coin. Ruddy is from Old English rud, a variant form of ‘red’. The word's use as a euphemism for bloody dates from the early 20th century.
Rhymes bloody, buddy, cruddy, cuddy, muddy, nuddy, study Definition of ruddy in US English: ruddyadjectiveˈrədēˈrədi 1(of a person's face) having a healthy red color. a cheerful pipe-smoking man of ruddy complexion Example sentencesExamples - He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
- People with fair, freckled skin, a ruddy complexion, or red hair are more susceptible to sunburn than others, but everyone is susceptible to some degree.
- At night we returned ruddy faced and tired, but elated by vigorous exercise in such inspiring surroundings.
- The suspect is white, 5ft 10 in, of medium build with dark brown receding closely cropped hair, brown eyes and ruddy complexion and has a deep voice with a Yorkshire accent.
- His dark blonde hair was soaked with sweat and his face was flushed and ruddy.
- Reynolds painted his florid, bald, ruddy countenance many times, and for decades less distinguished portraits swung outside countless taverns.
- Brown eyes stare back at me from beneath black eyebrows above a ruddy face framed by thick black hair which melts into a long, well-groomed beard.
- The fire in the grate smoked up the room and all faces were ruddy with warmth and intoxication.
- The guard's ruddy face flushed and he looked away.
- She had black hair and a ruddy face, and was humming merrily as she sliced bread at the table.
- The victim of the first attempted burglary described the intruder as in his mid 30s, with a ruddy complexion, sandy hair, and wearing black gloves and a light shirt.
- Linn has pale blue eyes, a ruddy wind-burned face, and a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth.
- He has a ruddy, open face - he laughs a lot - and an oddly guileless manner.
- He had a mop of blond hair and a ruddy complexion.
- We were standing outside the Monitor's office in the harsh afternoon sun and now Short, a compact woman with a ruddy complexion, took a drag on her cigarette.
- He nodded to the man, whose ruddy face was turning even redder, and took several steps in my direction.
- She had never looked upon the ruddy face of Gryth's oldest son.
- He is described as white, about six feet two inches tall aged in his mid to late 30s. with a large build, a shaved head, a ruddy complexion and a distinctive Liverpool accent.
- I guess my face was all ruddy and my black hair covered in snow and ice even below the fur-hat, but I wasn't paying any attention to that.
- She was dressed in a normal housemaid's uniform, but her face was ruddy and she looked like she'd spent her entire life in the country.
Synonyms red, pink, glowing, reddish, pinkish, florid, high-coloured, healthy-looking, aglow, burning, flaming, feverish, rubicund, roseate, rosy - 1.1 Having a reddish color.
Example sentencesExamples - A few lights blinked out across the desert-like prairie, a land of strong, ruddy dawns and drawn, bluish-yellow evenings.
- Camp was set up in short order and soon a blazing fire lit the face of the edifice in a ruddy, wavering light.
- Most of the life in the universe could bask in the ruddy light of red dwarfs.
- We all turned to see the principal standing there, his face taking on a ruddy color at the sight of the mess.
- As she had predicted, the stain on the back of her skirt did not come out, and in the time she had been sitting, it had faded the red material to ruddy beige.
- The desert coast gave way to the low palms of the Nile delta, and the sea turned ruddy from the fresh water flow of the great river.
- So the golden sun brightened the sky and stained the trees and ocean ruddy pink.
- His immediate impression was one of stifling heat and dim ruddy red light.
Synonyms reddish, red, rosy, rosy-cheeked, pink, pinkish, roseate, rubicund red, reddish, scarlet, vermilion, crimson, blood-red, rose-red, pink, roseate
2British informal Used as a euphemism for “bloody.”. Example sentencesExamples - ‘If anything's broken, I'm telling you, you can ruddy well pay for it’.
- I don't even ruddy well know where he works, or what he is!
- I says to him, 'I'm not answering your bloody questions,' I says, 'I've already told your girl out there, I'm not going to ruddy St Mary's and that's that.'
- The independent suspension soaks up all manner of road imperfections from concrete joins to ruddy great holes quietly and without a jolt.
- On the same basis, skiers should be warned that those plank things on their feet could cause them to slide downhill rather rapidly and hangmen that their gallows were a bit unsafe because of that ruddy great trapdoor.
verbˈrədēˈrədi [with object]Make ruddy in color. a red flash ruddied the belly of a cloud
Origin Late Old English rudig, from the base of archaic rud ‘red color’; related to red. |