Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ruddy
Participle: ruddied
Gerund: ruddying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ruddy |
| you | ruddy |
| he;she;it | ruddies |
| we | ruddy |
| you | ruddy |
| they | ruddy |
Perfect
| I | have ruddied |
| you | have ruddied |
| he;she;it | has ruddied |
| we | have ruddied |
| you | have ruddied |
| they | have ruddied |
Past
| I | ruddied |
| you | ruddied |
| he;she;it | ruddied |
| we | ruddied |
| you | ruddied |
| they | ruddied |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruddied |
| you | had ruddied |
| he;she;it | had ruddied |
| we | had ruddied |
| you | had ruddied |
| they | had ruddied |
Future
| I | will ruddy |
| you | will ruddy |
| he;she;it | will ruddy |
| we | will ruddy |
| you | will ruddy |
| they | will ruddy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ruddied |
| you | will have ruddied |
| he;she;it | will have ruddied |
| we | will have ruddied |
| you | will have ruddied |
| they | will have ruddied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ruddy |
| you | ruddy |
| he;she;it | ruddy |
| we | ruddy |
| you | ruddy |
| they | ruddy |
Perfect
| I | have ruddied |
| you | have ruddied |
| he;she;it | have ruddied |
| we | have ruddied |
| you | have ruddied |
| they | have ruddied |
Imperfect
| I | ruddied |
| you | ruddied |
| he;she;it | ruddied |
| we | ruddied |
| you | ruddied |
| they | ruddied |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruddied |
| you | had ruddied |
| he;she;it | had ruddied |
| we | had ruddied |
| you | had ruddied |
| they | had ruddied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ruddy |
| you | would ruddy |
| he;she;it | would ruddy |
| we | would ruddy |
| you | would ruddy |
| they | would ruddy |
Perfect
| I | would have ruddied |
| you | would have ruddied |
| he;she;it | would have ruddied |
| we | would have ruddied |
| you | would have ruddied |
| they | would have ruddied |
Imperative
| you | ruddy |
| we | Let's ruddy |
| you | ruddy |
Verbs conjugated like 'ruddy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ruddy'
buddy,
muddy,
caddy,
daddy,
eddy,
giddy,
kiddy,
poddy,
ready,
redry,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-der.
3. Old English rudu
4. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
5. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *-g
7. Old English -iġ
8. Old English rudiġ
9. Middle English rody
10. English ruddy
11. Inherited from Middle English rody, from Old English rudiġ (“reddish; ruddy”), from rudu + -iġ. By surface analysis, rud (“redness”) + -y. Compare Icelandic roði (“redness”).
12. The British slang sense expressing irritation is presumably a euphemism for bloody.
Sample Sentences
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The sunset ruddied our faces.
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It ruddied all the copse-wood glen [1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:]