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Rudd

//ɹʌd// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    European freshwater fish resembling the roach wordnet
  3. 3
    Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.; common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".

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