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red-up

red-up is the alternative form of redd up.

Meaning of redd up

Verb

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

  1. (Pennsylvania, Scotland, US, Western, dialectal) To clean up, especially a room.
    • There, sir, you are redd up and made decent.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Questions about red-up

What is red-up the alternative form of?
Red-up is the alternative form of redd up.

Words near red-up in the dictionary

  1. red-toothed
  2. red-toothed shrew
  3. red-toothed shrews
  4. red-top
  5. red-tops
  6. red-up
  7. red-veined
  8. red-veined darter
  9. red-veined darters
  10. red-veined dock
  11. red-veined docks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red-up (page history and authors); redd up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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