ruddock
/ˈɹʌdək/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of gold money (probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy).
Obsolete
name
A surname.
name
A ghost town in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, United States, destroyed by a hurricane.
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Etymology
From Middle English ruddocke, ruddok, roddok, from Old English rudduc, ruduc (“robin, ruddock”, literally “little red one, red-ling”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -ock (diminutive suffix). The Welsh rhuddog, and Cornish rudhek (“the redbreast”) are probably from the English, although a derivation from a British Celtic *roudākos (< *roudos "red") for all three cannot be ruled out. More at rud.
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Inflected Forms
ruddocks (plural)
reddock (alternative)
raddock (alternative)
ruddoc (alternative)
rudock (alternative)
Rudick (alternative)