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Redid vs Redd - What's the difference?

redid | redd |

As verbs the difference between redid and redd

is that redid is (redo) while redd is (colloquial) to put in order; to make tidy; generally with up or redd can be (pennsylvania) to clean, tidy up, to put in order or redd can be (rede).

As a noun redd is

a spawning nest made by a fish.

redid

English

Verb

(head)
  • (redo)
    • ----

    redo

    English

    Verb

  • To do again.

    • Synonyms

    * (to do again) rework

    Antonyms

    * (to do again) undo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}

    Anagrams

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    redd

    English

    Etymology 1

    Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.

    Alternative forms

    * red

    Verb

  • (colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.
    • ''to redd up a house.
  • (colloquial) To free from entanglement.
  • (colloquial) To free from embarrassment.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To fix boundaries.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To comb hair.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To separate combatants.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
  • (obsolete) To save, rescue, deliver
    • Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde .'' — ''Floris and Blauncheflur
    Whi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle?'' — ''Ancrene Riwle
    Derived terms
    * (l), (l)
    References
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) rydhja, (etyl), compare Dutch redden.

    Alternative forms

    * red

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
    • I've got to redd up the place before your mother gets back.
    References
    *

    Etymology 3

    Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spawning nest made by a fish.
  • * 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches , National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
    • A female chinook salmon digs her redd , or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.

    Etymology 4

    From the archaic verb rede or read

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rede)
  • (obsolete) (read)
    • Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God'' — ''The Works of John Knox , 1841
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