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rud·dy

   [ruhd-ee] adjective, -di·er, -di·est, adverb
adjective
1.
of or having a fresh, healthy red color: a ruddy complexion.
2.
red or reddish.
3.
British Slang. damned: a ruddy fool.
adverb
4.
British Slang. damned: He'd ruddy well better be there.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
before 1100; Middle English rudi, Old English rudig. See rudd, -y1

Related forms
rud·di·ly, adverb
rud·di·ness, noun
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ruddy (ˈrʌdɪ)
 
—adj , -dier, -diest
1.  (of the complexion) having a healthy reddish colour, usually resulting from an outdoor life
2.  coloured red or pink: a ruddy sky
 
—adv, —adj
3.  (intensifier) bloody; damned: a ruddy fool
 
[Old English rudig, from rudu redness (see rudd); related to Old High German rotred1, Swedish rod, Old Norse rythga to make rusty]
 
'ruddily
 
—adv
 
'ruddiness
 
—n

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ruddy
O.E. rudig, probably from rudu "redness," related to read "red" (see red). As a British slang euphemism for bloody (q.v.), first recorded 1914.
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