Meanings
rudd1
plural rudds
- Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.
2007, Martin James, “At the Waters Edge blog!”, in BBC - Lancashire - Sport, retrieved 02 Aug 2010- common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)
Rudd2
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
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.
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, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2018 - A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEuropean freshwater fish resembling the roach
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
rudd · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁rewdʰ-
- Englishrudd
Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).
More words from Proto-Indo-European
Full word history & related roots →Rudd · proper noun
Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic رُود
- رُود (rūd)surname
Bulgarian червеноперка, Ръд
- червеноперка (červenoperka)fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- Ръд (Răd)surname
Catalan gardí
- gardífish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Chinese Mandarin 拉德
- 拉德 (Lādé)surname
Czech perlín
- perlínfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Dutch rietvoorn
- rietvoornfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Finnish sorva
- sorvafish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
French rotengle
- rotenglefish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
German Rotfeder
- Rotfederfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Greek Ραντ
- Ραντ (Rant)surname
Hebrew ראד
- ראדsurname
Hindi रड
- रड (raḍ)surname
Hungarian vörösszárnyú keszeg, kele
- vörösszárnyú keszegfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- kelefish of genus Scardinius
Irish ruán
- ruánfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Japanese ラッド
- ラッド (Raddo)surname
Korean 러드
- 러드 (reodeu)surname
Persian راد
- راد (râd)surname
Polish wzdręga
- wzdręgafish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Russian краснопёрка, Радд
- краснопёрка (krasnopjórka)fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- Радд (Radd)surname
Spanish gardí
- gardífish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Swedish sarv
- sarvfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Thai รัดด์
- รัดด์ (rát)surname
Turkish kızılkanat, kızılkanat
- kızılkanatfish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- kızılkanatfish of genus Scardinius
Ukrainian краснопі́рка, червонопі́рка
- краснопі́рка (krasnopírka)fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- червонопі́рка (červonopírka)fish Scardinius erythrophthalmus
Urdu رۇد
- رۇدsurname
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with rudd
Cite this entry
rudd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rudd
“rudd.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rudd. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rudd,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rudd.
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