rud
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of rud
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable)redness; blush
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noun
- (uncountable)redness; blush
- (uncountable)ruddle; red ochre
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of rudd (“fish”).
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(abbreviation, acronym, initialism)(engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup.
“Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.”
““Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.”
verb
- (intransitive)To become red; redden.
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(obsolete, transitive)To make red.
“Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded”
- (euphemistic)To produce a RUD.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).
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