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ruddock

[ ruhd-uhk ]

noun

, British Dialect.


ruddock

/ ˈrʌdək /

noun

  1. a dialect name for the robin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ruddock1

Old English rudduc ; related to rudu redness; see rudd
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Example Sentences

This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the Mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes.

They're singing Bob Marley songs, because Ruddock is from Jamaica.

About fifty years ago the leader who started the tune with a trumpet was James Ruddock "a bedstuffer."

Ruddock had once set out with high hopes of reaching the Sixth; his first term he had won a Divinity prize in the Shell.

Ruddock's writing-pad passed slowly round the back and centre benches.

Yet there was no laughing crowd, and I haven't heard one of Ruddock's jokes bruited about.

Whereat Pendell almost roars with laughter, and nods at me knowingly, as if asking if Ruddock isn't a character.

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