Redd vs Reddy – What’s the difference?

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Redd vs Reddy - What's the difference?
As a verb redd is (colloquial) to put in order; to make tidy; generally with up or redd can be (pennsylvania) to clean, tidy up, to put in order or redd can be (rede).
As a noun redd is a spawning nest made by a fish.

As an adjective reddy is somewhat red in colour.

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

    *

    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

    *

    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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    reddy

    English

    (wikipedia Reddy )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun )

  • A caste in India. People belonging to this caste are normally found in south India and mostly in Andhra Pradesh.

    • Noun

    (Reddies)

  • A member of this caste.

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