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Ruddy Red English Rēad Evolved British Intensive I

Ruddy means having a healthy reddish color, or red/reddish; in British English, it is also used as an intensive.

Ruddy는 건강한 붉은 색을 띠거나 붉은색, 적갈색을 띠거나, 영국에서는 강조어로 사용되는 것을 의미합니다.

Word ruddy
Date September 11, 2020
Type adjective
Syllables RUDD-ee
Etymology In Old English, there were two related words referring to red coloring: rēad and rudu. Rēad evolved into our present-day red. Rudu evolved into rud (a word now encountered only in dialect or archaic usage) and ruddy. Most often, ruddy is applied to the face when it has the red glow of good health or is red from a suffusion of blood from exercise or excitement. It is also used in the names of some birds, such as the American ruddy duck. In British English, ruddy is also used as a colorful euphemism for the sometimes offensive intensive bloody, as 20th-century English writer Sir Kingsley Amis illustrates in The Riverside Villas Murder: "Ruddy marvelous, the way these coppers' minds work.... I take a swing at Chris Inman in public means I probably done him in."
Examples "There was a stout man with a ruddy complexion, a merchant probably, half asleep." — Elif Shafak, The Architect’s Apprentice, 2014

"Lichen green and the reds of fired brick exude a splash of ruddy color on the exterior of Manchester State Park's enclosed picnic area…." — Bob Smith, The Kitsap Daily News, 5 Nov. 2019
Definition 1 : having a healthy reddish color
2 : red, reddish
3 British — used as an intensive

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