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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(Australia, colloquial) Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright..
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.’
Use ridgy-didge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ridgy-didge means (Australia, colloquial) Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright..
Common synonyms include dinkum, dinky-die, fair dinkum, for real.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?
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