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 To ruck (or rucket) along, verb. phr. (Oxford University).—To walk quickly.

Ruction, subs. (common).—An uproar.—Halliwell (1847).

1833. Neal, Down-Easters, ii. 14. Ryled, all over, inside and out—Ryled—ructions.

1884. Echo, 19 March, 2, 3. The police, when there is a ruction, drop quietly over a wall into the midst of the combatants.

1894. Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 29 Mar., 4, 7. The ructions at the Freeman meeting yesterday.

1900. White, West End, 124. Ructions took place and  he went so far as to tell his wife that "he didn't care a damn what she did."

Rudder, subs. (venery).—The penis: see Prick. Also (Somerset) = copulation.

d. 1638. Carew, Rapture. My rudder with thy bold hand thou shalt steer and guide into Love's channel.

1760. Robertson of Struan, Poems, 95. Sure Venus never can be tir'd While pow'rful Mars directs the Rudder.

Ruddocks (or Red, or Golden, Ruddocks), subs. (old).—Money: specifically gold: also ruddy. [Formerly gold was conventionally "red" ('a girdle of gold so red' and 'good red gold'—Percy Rel.).] Cf. Ridge and Redge.

1570. Turberville [Chalmer's, Poets, ii. 647]. The greedie carle came and saw the pot behind Where ruddocks lay, but ruddocks could not find.

1585. Choise of Change [Cens. Literaria, ix. 435]. He must have his red ruddockes ready.

1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Zanfrone. Used also for crownes, great pieces of gold, as our countrymen say red-ruddockes.

1600. Munday and Drayton, Old-*castle, i. 2. My fingers' end do itch To be upon those golden ruddocks.

1607. Heywood, Fair Maid [Works, II. 277]. I believe they be little better than pirates, they are so flush of their rudocks.

Rudesby, subs. (old colloquial).—A rude boisterous person. [Johnson (1745) 'a low word.'] Cf. sneaksby, idlesbie, wigsby, &C.

1593. Shakspeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2. A mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen. Ibid. (1602), Twelfth Night, iv. 1. Be not offended, dear Cesario,—Rudesby, begone.

Rudge-gown, subs. (old).—An outcast: also rug-gown. Whence rug-gowned = meanly; rug-headed = shock-headed.

1597. Shakspeare, Richard II., ii. 1, 156. We must supplant these rough rug-headed kerns.

1622. Fletcher and Massinger, Prophetess, ii. 2. I had rather meet An enemy in the field than stand thus nodding Like to a rug-gouned watchman.

1654. Witt's Recr. [Nares]. A rudg-gowns ribs are good to spur a horse.

Rue, subs. (colloquial).—Repentance: as rue-quarrel, verb. = to repent and withdraw; rue-bargain = smart-money.

1817. Scott, Rob Roy, xxvii. He said it would cost him a guinea of rue-bargain to the man who had bought his pony before he could get it back again.

c. 1852. Traits of Amer. Humour, I. 226. I'm for no rues and after-claps.

Ruff, subs. (old).—'An old-fashioned double band.'—B. E. (c. 1696).

2. (old).—A court card: hence to ruff = to trump. [Ruff = a game similar to whist, 'in which the greatest sorte of sute carrieth away the game.'—Peele, I, 211, note.] See Trump.

1593. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Ronfar. A game at cardes called ruffe or trump.