Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foul-mouthed old woman; a randy; a beldam; a hag.
- Bold; coarse; foulmouthed: applied to women.
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Examples
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YE gied the wild-fowl, the best end of our christening dinner, to a friend of yours, ye auld rudas!
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(She lowered her voice.) "Ye mun ken, Sir, that o 'a' the leddies frae the Lammermuir, that hae been comin 'and gaen, there was an auld rudas wife this fair, an' I'm certie she's witched the yill; and ye mun just look into ye'r buiks, an 'tak off the withchin!"
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829 Various
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"And I think you will be as little fitted for the rudas men as for the pretty ladies, after all!" says she, when I had done.
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I heard ane o 'his gillies bid that auld rudas jaud of a gudewife gie ye that.
Rob Roy 1887
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` ` Ta Duinh-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill.
The Waverley 1877
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"And I think you will be as little fitted for the rudas men as for the pretty ladies, after all!" says she, when I had done.
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"And I think you will be as little fitted for the rudas men as for the pretty ladies, after all!" says she, when I had done.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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--- But what can ail them to bury the auld carlin (a rudas wife she was) in the night-time?
The Antiquary 1845
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'Ta Duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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'Ta duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never done
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
sionnach commented on the word rudas
a repugnant, foulmouthed hag
January 12, 2008
qms commented on the word rudas
In case the depiction elude us:
I think the old crone is construed as
A termagant hag,
A shrewish old bag,
A harridan Scott calls a rudas.
June 19, 2016