Talk:redd up

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Tagged by an IP but not listed. I have no opinion. Also, article is unformatted. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:54, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

• Keep. From [1]: Ready, to, in the sense of setting to rights, is an old English term surviving in our speech. Grose quotes: "Ready, to ready the hair, to comb it," and speaks of a " Readying comb, a widetoothed comb." The word is often heard in America, but more generally assumes the equally old form, to redd, of which Grose says: " Redd, to untangle or separate. South." •' To redd up a room " is a marked provincialism in Pennsylvania, from whence it has passed into Ohio. It originated with the Scotch immigrants, who settled those districts, and brought the word with them from the borders.... DCDuring TALK 00:44, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

  The entry for redd seems to have a redundant etymology/PoS/sense, but supports, yea repeats, this sense. DCDuring TALK 00:50, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I remember this from Jane Eyre: "There, sir, you are redd up and made decent. Now I'll leave you." Equinox ◑ 00:49, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

I was thinking keep too. Since the nominator has never said why he/she nominated, we will never know. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:32, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Kept. Needs an inflection line, especially as it does (per Brontë via Equinox) not use -ed.​—msh210℠ 16:47, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Chiefly Pennsylvania?

Weird to say this is a US usage and then have Jane Eyre as the only example. Thmazing (talk) 23:02, 25 September 2016 (UTC)