ruddy

Meanings

Adjective

• Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

Noun

• A ruddy duck.
• A ruddy ground dove.

Verb

• To make reddish in colour.

Related

Similar words

• rosy
• bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming

Origin

• From Middle English ruddy, rody, rudi, from Old English rudiġ ("reddish; ruddy"), from rudu, equivalent to rud + -y. Compare Icelandic roði ("redness").
• The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.