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ruddy
adjective
used as an intensifier UK, 1914
A rhyming euphemism for BLOODYThat [pantomime] cow’s got a ruddy cheek! — A London Palladium panto joke from the early 1960s, How was I to know wide girls like them would turn me into a ruddy dreamboat, all three of them? — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 119, 1956 WATSON: You never know your luck, Milly. MILLIGAN: What, with that ruddy mob? — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 83, 1959 A ruddy purse full of sovereigns. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 58, 1960 Like the sound of a ruddy cannon. — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 6, 1962 “Ruddy old bushwhacker, that’s what he is, missus!” cried Charlie. — Frank Dalby Davison, Beersheba, p. 77, 1965 This ain’t no ruddy secret society were running up here. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 40, 1967 Then they started making the slow ones [records], and that’s when I dropped out ... ruddy hell, I could have made that myself. — Paul E. Willis, Profane Culture, p. 39, 1978 |