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adjective

Ruddy adj. (compar. ruddier; superl. ruddiest)

Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame. "They were more ruddy in body than rubies."

Of a lively flesh color, or the color of the human skin in high health; as, ruddy cheeks or lips.

Ruddy duck (Zool.), an American duck (Erismatura rubida) having a broad bill and a wedge-shaped tail composed of stiff, sharp feathers. The adult male is rich brownish red on the back, sides, and neck, black on the top of the head, nape, wings, and tail, and white on the cheeks. The female and young male are dull brown mixed with blackish on the back; grayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver, stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc.

Ruddy plover (Zool.) the sanderling.

verb

Ruddy v. t. To make ruddy. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Ruddy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ruddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... Those ruddy and heavily charged waters, rising and retiring with almost mathematical regularity, bring and leave the spoils of the countries they have traversed: sand from Nubia, whitish clay from the regions of the Lakes, ferruginous mud, and the various rock-formations ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) • G. Maspero

... orderly with a torch lighted me to my quarters. Inside the bush-hut assigned to the Mohican and myself, the red torch-light flickered over the recumbent Sagamore, swathed in his blanket, motionless. But even as I looked one of his eyes opened a little way, glimmering like a jewel in the ruddy darkness, then closed again. ...

— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers

... However proudly he might bear himself in the company of strangers, he approached his colleagues with the air of a man made absurd by unsolicited attentions, persecuted and compromised to the last degree. The bosses of his ruddy face displayed all the quiverings and tortures and suffusions of a smiling shame. He was, however, compensated for the loss of personal dignity by a very substantial income. Not that at first he would admit the compensation. "Ricky," ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

... pallor of a storm A summer landscape doth deform, Making a livid shadow grow Athwart the noon-day's ruddy glow, ...

— Daisy Dare, and Baby Power - Poems • Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

... was done for a moment or so Atli stood still, and grew white beneath his ruddy skin, white as his beard. Then he staggered back against the wainscoting of ...

— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard

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