ridgy-didge
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.84 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?"
- "‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’ ‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’"
- "‘Bullshit.′ ‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’"
- "In the normal scheme of things a senior editor would have agreed on the sum with the seller having already defrayed the costs around the group, asking for, say, $3000 from each of the Sundays after assuring them the photos were ‘ridgy-didge’."
- "2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278, Sit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge."
- "‘[…]I don′t know if I would have managed a commission. I don′t know if I was bright enough for that. But I was a pretty ridgy-didge soldier.’"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
more ridgy-didge (comparative)
most ridgy-didge (superlative)
ridgy didge (alternative)