Redd vs Reqd - What's the difference?
redd | reqd |
(colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.
(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
(Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
A spawning nest made by a fish.
* 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches , National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
(rede)
(obsolete) (read)
As a verb 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.As an abbreviation reqd is
required.redd
English
Etymology 1
Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.Alternative forms
* redVerb
- ''to redd up a house.
- 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
* redVerb
(en verb)- 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 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 readVerb
(head)- Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God'' — ''The Works of John Knox , 1841