bright-eyed vs ruddy

bright-eyed

adj

  • eager and alert 

ruddy

adj

  • A mild intensifier, expressing irritation. 

  • Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky. 

adv

  • A mild intensifier, expressing irritation. 

verb

  • To make reddish in colour. 

noun

  • A ruddy duck. 

  • A ruddy ground dove. 

How often have the words bright-eyed and ruddy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )