redd up

verb

To clean up, especially a room.

Meanings

verbredd up (third-person singular simple present redds up, present participle redding up, simple past and past participle redd up or redded up)

present singular third person redds up · participle present redding up · participle past redded up · past redded up

  1. PennsylvaniaScotlandUSWesterndialectalTo clean up, especially a room.

    There, sir, you are redd up and made decent.

    1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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