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WEEL-RED(D)-UP, adj.phr. Tidy, well-in-order. Gen.Sc. See Redd, v.¹, 7.wm.Sc. 1837 Laird of Logan 166:
If there be a party got up in the kitchen for blind-man's buff, on a “weel red-up floor.”Sc. 1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 134:
Though I give the house a sooping, it never has a clean, well-redd-up look.