rudd

[ ruhd ]

noun

1. a European, freshwater fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus, of the carp family.

Rudd

¹

/ rʌd /

noun

1. RuddKevin1957MAustralianPOLITICS: prime minister Kevin (Michael). born 1957, Australian politician: leader of the Labor Party (2006–10 and from 2013); Prime Minister (2007–2010 and from 2013)
2. RuddSteele18681935MAustralianWRITING: author Steele , pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis , 1868–1935, Australian author. His works include On Our Selection (1899), Our New Selection (1902), Back at Our Selection (1906) and Grandpa's Selection (1916) which featured the characters Dad and Dave

rudd

²

/ rʌd /

noun

1. a European freshwater cyprinid fish, Scardinius erythrophthalmus , having a compressed dark greenish body and reddish ventral and tail fins

Word History and Origins

Origin of rudd¹

1600–10; apparently special use of rud redness (now dial.), Middle English rude, Old English rudu; red ¹, ruddy

Word History and Origins

Origin of rudd¹

C17: probably from dialect rud red colour, from Old English rudu redness

Example Sentences

I’m a psychologist and researcher at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut.

From No Straight News

Comic book obsessives have, of late, been concentrating their geeking out on the casting of Paul Rudd as Ant-Man.

From The Daily Beast

That no one under the age of, say, 30 would have any clue what Rudd and Poehler were parodying.

From The Daily Beast

The movie stars Paul Rudd (I Love You, Man) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation).

From The Daily Beast

At the 2013 Golden Globes, Salma Hayek and Paul Rudd presented the award for Best Actor in a TV series.

From The Daily Beast

Bringing comedy to the forefront, Samsung employs Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd to sit in a brainstorm meeting.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Rudd can talk of nothing except his art, and I like Tauchnitz novels that one can read without any trouble.

From Project Gutenberg

She said what happened was this: The man whom Rudd describes as Anikin had been in love for many years with a married woman.

From Project Gutenberg

Outlined from a figure of a warehouseman rolling a sherry flask into Mr. Rudd's wine-vaults.

From Project Gutenberg

Before the house was a lawn, and here it was that Rudd taught me the game.

From Project Gutenberg

It was for Rudd then to defend himself and for me to attack.

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