Ruddy vs Rudd - What's the difference?
ruddy | rudd |
Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
(British, slang) A mild intensifier.
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(informal) ruddy duck
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=Close to Nature, and the Airport, work=New York Times
, 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. }}
To make reddish in colour.
A species of freshwater game fish .
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As an adjective ruddy
is reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.As a noun ruddy
is (informal) ruddy duck.As a verb ruddy
is to make reddish in colour.As a proper noun rudd is
.ruddy
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See alsoSee also
*Noun
(ruddies)citation
Verb
- The sunset ruddied our faces.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
rudd
English
(wikipedia rudd) (Scardinus erythrophthalmus)Noun
(en noun)At the Waters Edge blog!," BBC - Lancashire - Sport (retrieved 2 Aug 2010):
- Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.