Rudd

See also: rudd

English

Etymology

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʌd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Proper noun

Rudd

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
    • 2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
  2. A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.

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