Meaning of ridgy-didge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright.
   Australia, colloquial
2. Good, fine.
   Australia, colloquial

Examples

“Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?”

“‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’ ‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’”

“‘Bullshit.′ ‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’”

“In the normal scheme of things a senior editor would have agreed on the sum with the seller having already defrayed the costs around the group, asking for, say, $3000 from each of the Sundays after assuring them the photos were ‘ridgy-didge’.”

“2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278, Sit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge.”

“‘[…]I don′t know if I would have managed a commission. I don′t know if I was bright enough for that. But I was a pretty ridgy-didge soldier.’”

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