Latin ruidus (“rough”)
ruvid (comparative more ruvid, superlative most ruvid)
- (archaic, formal) rough
1838, Augustus Bozzi Granville, The Spas of Germany, page 443:One of the principal effects to be noticed in using the mineral water at Wiesbaden, is the great change that supervenes in the state of the skin. From being dry and ruvid, it becomes moist and soft.
