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English
Etymology
From ruddy + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ruddily (comparative more ruddily, superlative most ruddily)
- In a ruddy way; with red colour.
1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “The Siege of Corinth”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: [T Davison] for John Murray, , →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 43, lines 782–783:Many a hand's on a richer hilt, / But none on a steel more ruddily gilt; [...]
1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:I notice that each of the myriad towel carts on the Dreamward’s Deck 12 is manned by its very own Towel Guy, and that their Towel Guys are ruddily Nordic and nonspectral and have nothing resembling withering neutrality or boredom about their mien.