anyone ever hear of the phrase to "red up" something?

redd up is Western Pennsylvania dialect for clean up. It comes from Scottish English.

many Scots and Scots-Irish settled in the hills of Western PA, and that phrase is one of their lasting legacies in the language of our area here in Western PA.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/70/R0097000.html

http://www.pittsburghese.com/glossary.ep.html?type...

Sammy was correct. I live In NE Ohio and I redd up my house. Cleaning to me involves a bucket with water and soap or bleach. Basically it's light dusting, picking up and putting away and vacuuming - at least that's what Mom taught me. I always thought it was a Pennsylvania Dutch term - as my grandparents were. Interesting to learn it's Scottish.

I had said something about redding up and my neighbor thought I was making up words. Couldn't find it in the dictionary and ended up here. By the way, the neighbor calls his trowel a dibble - anyone heard of that terminology? Have fun!

According to urbandictionary.com, it means to clean up or tidy. Perhaps a contracted form of "ready up".

Perhaps you mean "re-up" which means to sign up for something AGAIN. E.g. re-enlistment.

violent

like to warm someone up

fight words

to get ready

no