ruddy

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Children were in the wood of Dunderave--ruddy, shy children, gathering nuts and blackberries, with merriment haunting the landscape as it were in a picture by Watteau or a tale of the classics, where such figures happily move for ever and for ever in the right golden glamour.

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  1. adjective Having a healthy, reddish color.
  2. adjective Reddish; rosy.
  3. adjective Chiefly British Slang Used as an intensive: "You ruddy liar!” (John Galsworthy).

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  • Children were in the wood of Dunderave--ruddy, shy children, gathering nuts and blackberries, with merriment haunting the landscape as it were in a picture by Watteau or a tale of the classics, where such figures happily move for ever and for ever in the right golden glamour. —  Doom Castle
  • For as they came before me, one after another, I did not know which of them to call most beautiful; for the brown hair, the golden, the black, and the ruddy are all most fair to see. —  Frivolous Cupid
  • He was youth incarnate--ruddy, joyous, vigorous, adventurous, self-confident youth--and, in all the years since, that first picture of him has suffered no change with me. —  Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
  • White and ruddy was his beardless countenance. —  The Coming of Cuculain
  • He was hatless, ruddy, and hot. —  Via Crucis
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rosy ·  reddish ·  golden ·  silvery ·  crimson ·  dusky ·  tawny ·  amber ·  fiery ·  livid ·  plump ·  swarthy
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English rudi, from Old English rudig; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ruddy, rody, rodi, rudi, from Anglo-Saxon *rudig, rudi, reddish, ruddy, from rudu (= Icelandic rothi, redness), red, redness, from reódan (preterit plural rudon), make red. from reád, red: see rud, red.
  2. from ruddy, adjective
 

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