Jakob Bohme

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

German Theologian

John Burroughs

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.

American Author

Mel Giedroyc

The Bake Off' taps into nostalgic feelings about your mum baking in the kitchen. It's a big ruddy comfort blanket, and you get attached to the bakers. It also genuinely has a good heart.

English Entertainer

Francis Parkman

It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.

American Historian

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.

I think if you're 50 you just ruddy say it.

Used to vividly describe skin or face color, often indicating health or exposure to weather.

Color Description

The term is neutral and descriptive, without suggesting a strong emotion or attitude.

Neutral Tone

Shows slight irritation or annoyance, less strong than harsh swear words.

Mild Annoyance

Mostly used in the UK, can be unfamiliar or misunderstood by those from other English-speaking areas.

British Slang

Historically implied vigorous health or stoutness, less common in modern usage.

Historical Health

Found in classic literature, may not be immediately understood in day-to-day conversation.

Literary Use

Can suggest warmth, vitality, and a sense of aliveness in literary contexts.

Emotional Implication

 For instance, most of the birds in this picture are migratory birds. They were all on the Gulf in May, while oil was starting to come ashore in certain places. Down on the lower left there are ruddy turnstones and sanderlings. They breed in the High Arctic,

Carl Safina: The oil...

 old ruddy jungle comes to a standstill it's not even cold yesterday they said it was too cold to snow what does that even mean they must have known it was coming where are the gritters that's what i want to know it comes every year

A Snow Tiger Complaining...

 do that's photographer ruddy roy talking about reggae icon bob marley so he wants to find your vibration and it's the

Ruddy