ruddy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ruddy/ˈrʌdi/

▶adjective (ruddier, ruddiest)

• 1 (especially of a person's face) having a healthy red colour.

• 2 Brit. informal used as a euphemism for ‘bloody’.

▶verb (ruddies, ruddying, ruddied) make red in colour.

– derivatives
ruddily adverb (rare),
ruddiness noun.

– origin OE rudig, from the base of archaic rud ‘red colour’; rel. to red.