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Definition of 'redd'English
Etymology 1
Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.
Alternative forms
* red
Verb
(colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.
- ''to redd up a house.
(colloquial) To free from entanglement.
(colloquial) To free from embarrassment.
(Scotland|and|Northern England) To fix boundaries.
(Scotland|and|Northern England) To comb hair.
(Scotland|and|Northern England) To separate combatants.
(Scotland|and|Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
(obsolete) To save, rescue, deliver
- Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde .'' — ''Floris and Blauncheflur
- Whi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle?'' — ''Ancrene Riwle
Derived terms
* (l), (l)
References
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Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) rydhja, (etyl), compare Dutch redden.
Alternative forms
* red
Verb
( en-verb)
(Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
- I've got to redd up the place before your mother gets back.
References
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Etymology 3
Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.
Noun
( en-noun)
A spawning nest made by a fish.
* 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches , National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
- A female chinook salmon digs her redd , or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.
Etymology 4
From the archaic verb rede or read
Verb
( head)
(rede)
(obsolete) (read)
- Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God'' — ''The Works of John Knox , 1841
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