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Ruddy vs Pestilential - What's the difference?

ruddy | pestilential |

As adjectives the difference between ruddy and pestilential

is that ruddy is reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky while pestilential is producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.

As a noun ruddy

is (informal) ruddy duck.

As a verb ruddy

is to make reddish in colour.

ruddy

English

Adjective

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

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

    See also

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    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

    pestilential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1941 , author=Chapman Miske , title=The Thing in the Moonlight , passage=Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.}} ----