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Ruddier vs Cruddier - What's the difference?

ruddier | cruddier |

As adjectives the difference between ruddier and cruddier

is that ruddier is (ruddy) while cruddier is (cruddy).

ruddier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (ruddy)

    • ruddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
  • (British, slang) A mild intensifier.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See also

    See also

    *

    Noun

    (ruddies)
  • (informal) ruddy duck
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=Close to Nature, and the Airport, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies , greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls. }}

    Verb

  • To make reddish in colour.
    • The sunset ruddied our faces.
    (Sir Walter Scott)
    English intensifiers

    cruddier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (cruddy)

    • cruddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Full of crud
  • (slang) crummy, lousy, worthless
  • (slang) annoying, irritating
  • (obsolete) coagulated
  • * Spenser
    • His cruel wounds with cruddy blood congeal'd.