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Ruddy   /rˈədi/   Listen
Ruddy

adjective
(compar. ruddier; superl. ruddiest)
1.
Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.  Synonyms: florid, rubicund, sanguine.  "Santa's rubicund cheeks" , "A fresh and sanguine complexion"
2.
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.  Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet.



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"Ruddy" Quotes from Famous Books



... winter, too, particularly in the latter periods of it, the extremities of shrubs and branches begin to take on ruddy hues, or purplish browns, and the eye knows that these are the first faint blushes of coming summer. Now, too, we find how beautiful are the mosses in the woods; and under them we find solitary green leaves, that have laughed all winter because ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... across the physician's face, sweeping off its ruddy hue, and though his smile returned on the instant, it was as ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... Bright! Miss Lilywhite, I see you hiding in the croft! By yon steep stair of ruddy light The sun is climbing fast aloft; What makes the stealthy, creeping chill That hangs about the morning still?" Tinkle, tinkle in the pail: "Some one saunters up the vale, Pauses at the brook awhile, Dawdles at the meadow stile— Well! ...
— The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland • Various

... for a change. Newport. A beach. Time, August 1, 1887; 4 P.M. About me cleft rocks, cleavage straight through the embedded pebbles. Tones ruddy browns and grays. Gray beach. Sea-weed in heaps, deep pinks and purples. Boisterous waves, loaded with reddish seaweed, blue, with white crests, torn off in long ribbons by wind. Curious reds and blues as waves break, carrying sea-weed. Fierce gale off land. Dense fog, sun above it and ...
— Doctor and Patient • S. Weir Mitchell

... poetic language that David "was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to," and perhaps that was the chief reason (although women always adored a man of valor, intelligence and strength) that "Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David," and thus gave him the proud distinction of being the first man who ...
— Fair to Look Upon • Mary Belle Freeley


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