rud

Noun (1)

rud (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) redness or blushing
2. (obsolete) ruddle or red ochre

Verb (1)

rud (third-person singular simple present ruds, present participle rudding, simple past and past participle rudded)

1. (intransitive) To become red; redden.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make red.
   • Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Epithalamion”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Noun (2) capitalized: RUD

RUD (plural RUDs)

1. (abbreviation, acronym, initialism) (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup.
   • Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words...2015 January 16, Alex Hern, “This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like”, in The Guardian
   • “Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN

Verb (2) capitalized: RUD

1. (euphemistic) To produce a RUD.

Proper noun capitalized: Rud

Rud (plural Ruds)

1. A surname.