Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined to a healthy rosiness; ruddy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclining to redness; ruddy; blood-red: said especially of the face; in botany, turning rosy-red.
- Synonyms Rosy, etc. See
ruddy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Ruddy . - adjective Possessing a
red complexion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life
Etymologies
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Examples
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The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow.
Lavengro 2004
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The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow.
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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The expression of his countenance would have been bluff but for a certain sinister glance, and his complexion might have been called rubicund but for a considerable tinge of bilious yellow.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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Reverend Jenkins was tall, rubicund, big-boned yet fragile-looking, with a full shock of longish white hair topping the bill.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Reverend Jenkins was tall, rubicund, big-boned yet fragile-looking, with a full shock of longish white hair topping the bill.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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It sees the countryside as a large playground-museum, filled with red-faced Poujadiste farmers, cruel fox-hunting squires and rubicund peasants, over which its supporters are encouraged to roam at will.
Archive 2008-02-10 2008
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It sees the countryside as a large playground-museum, filled with red-faced Poujadiste farmers, cruel fox-hunting squires and rubicund peasants, over which its supporters are encouraged to roam at will.
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Theobald Tanqueray Thompkinson, leaning unsteadily forwards, jocular and rotund; rubicund, reckless and implausibly optimistic.
Pigeon Post 2010
brtom commented on the word rubicund
My face on niacin.
January 4, 2008
yarb commented on the word rubicund
Last sun ripes each one, though rubicund, black
then each rots.
- Peter Reading, Raspberrying, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008