ruddy
adjective
[ ˈrʌdi ]
• (of a person's face) having a healthy red colour.
• "a cheerful pipe-smoking man of ruddy complexion"
• used as a euphemism for ‘bloody’.
• "young people today, they're a ruddy shower"
Similar:
complete,
total,
utter,
damn,
damned,
blasted,
blessed,
flaming,
confounded,
blithering,
flipping,
blinking,
blooming,
bloody,
bleeding,
effing,
chuffing,
goddam,
doggone,
plurry,
bally,
fucking,
frigging,
fecking,
ruddy
verb
• make ruddy in colour.
• "a red flash ruddied the belly of a cloud"
Origin:
late Old English rudig, from the base of archaic rud ‘red colour’; related to red.
