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Zedded vs Redded - What's the difference?

zedded | redded |

As verbs the difference between zedded and redded

is that zedded is (zed) while redded is (redd).

zedded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (zed)

    • zed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
  • (colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zeds").

    • See also

    *

    Synonyms

    * zee (especially in the US) * izzard

    See also

    * zeta

    Verb

  • (informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
  • * 1991 , Jim Cartwright, Bed
    • Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
  • * 1992 , David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
    • I guess I must have zedded , for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
  • * 2007 , Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
    • "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
  • (rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
  • * 1931 , Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
    • We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
  • * 1994 , Tibor Fischer, The thought gang
    • Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.

    redded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (redd)

    • 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
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    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
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    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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