"ridgy-didge" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Fanciful diminutive of obsolete ridge (“real; used in reference to gold”). Australian from 1953.",
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      "form": "more ridgy-didge",
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      "form": "most ridgy-didge",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "text": "Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Gabrielle Lord, Lethal Factor, published 2010, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’\n‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bill King, King of the Outback, page 162:",
          "text": "‘Bullshit.′\n‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 280:",
          "text": "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’.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright."
      ],
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          "genuine"
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          "authentic",
          "authentic"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "honest",
          "honest"
        ],
        [
          "upright",
          "upright"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, colloquial) Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "dinkum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "dinky-die"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "fair dinkum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "genuine",
          "word": "for real"
        }
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        "colloquial"
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        {
          "text": "2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278,\nSit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Little, Down to the Sea, published 2012, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘[…]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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Good, fine."
      ],
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          "Good",
          "good"
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          "fine",
          "fine"
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        "(Australia, colloquial) Good, fine."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ridgy didge"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ridgy-didge"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Fanciful diminutive of obsolete ridge (“real; used in reference to gold”). Australian from 1953.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ridgy-didge",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ridgy-didge",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "English colloquialisms",
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        {
          "text": "Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Gabrielle Lord, Lethal Factor, published 2010, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’\n‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bill King, King of the Outback, page 162:",
          "text": "‘Bullshit.′\n‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 280:",
          "text": "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’.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
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      ],
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          "authentic",
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        ],
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          "honest",
          "honest"
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          "upright",
          "upright"
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        "(Australia, colloquial) Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright."
      ],
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          "text": "2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278,\nSit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Little, Down to the Sea, published 2012, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "‘[…]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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Good, fine."
      ],
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          "fine",
          "fine"
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        "(Australia, colloquial) Good, fine."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "dinkum"
    },
    {
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "dinky-die"
    },
    {
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "fair dinkum"
    },
    {
      "sense": "genuine",
      "word": "for real"
    },
    {
      "word": "ridgy didge"
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  "word": "ridgy-didge"
}