Rudd
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
"Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds."
- 2 European freshwater fish resembling the roach wordnet
- 3 Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.; common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname.
"I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke."
- 2 A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
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More examples"Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds."
Etymology
Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).
Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".
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