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reddlemen

reddlemen is the plural of reddleman.

Meaning of reddleman

Noun

reddleman (plural reddlemen)

  1. A ruddleman.
    • You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
  2. (archaic) A bogeyman
    • A child’s first sight of a reddleman was an epoch in his life. That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrible dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began. ‘The reddleman is coming for you!’ had been the formulated threat of Wessex mothers for many...1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 89

Questions about reddlemen

What is reddlemen the plural of?
Reddlemen is the plural of reddleman.

Words near reddlemen in the dictionary

  1. Reddix
  2. Reddixes
  3. reddle
  4. reddled
  5. reddleman
  6. reddlemen
  7. reddles
  8. reddling
  9. Reddock
  10. redds
  11. redds up

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