ruddishadj.
/ˈrʌdɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈrədɪʃ/ = ruddyish adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > reddish
reddisha1398
rubicund?a1425
ruddish1563
ruddyish1651
rubid1654
rutilous1654
flushy1706
rubescent1731
rufescent1802
rubedinous1845
rufulous1883
pyrrhous1890
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1060/2 Hee was neuer knowen..to loke with so chereful & ruddish a countenaunce as he did at that present.
1573 P. Moore Almanack sig. Dvjv The Sunne darting out his ruddishe rayes in the morning.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 207 The one of them was a white man, the other was ruddish.
1636 J. Sadler Sicke Womans Private Looking-glasse v. 50 The inabilitie of the sanguifficative faculty, causeth a generation of corrupt blood; and then the matter is ruddish.
1689 London Gaz. No. 2415/4 John Dobbins a Shoemaker,..full fac'd, with ruddish Complexion.
1715 J. Delacoste tr. H. Boerhaave Aphorisms 191 Inflammatory Distempers peculiar to Young Men, abounding in Blood, of a ruddish Complexion.
1749 Aristotle's Last Legacy xi. 107 Her Body is fleshy; but not fat: of a merry, pleasant, and chearful Countenance; a fresh ruddish Colour, and her Skin so very clear that you may see her Veins through it.
1831 W. S. Johnson Exper. Inq. Heat & Vapor in Rep. Comm. House of Representatives (22nd U.S. Congr., 1st Sess.) V. 106 (Table entry) [Of heated copper cylinders] Ruddish by dusk, but not in day light.
1885 K. Goldmark tr. S. H. Mosenthal Queen of Sheba iv. iii. 21/1 (stage direct.) The sky assumes a lurid, ruddish tint.
1918 E. P. Butler Philo Gubb 305 ‘It [sc. a pig] was tied..to an iron staple,’ he said, ‘by a short, stoutish man with a ruddish face.’
1998 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 18 Nov. d1 His blue eyes were twinkling and his face, all cheek and jowls and ruddish flush—gave off his puckish charm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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