Brewer's: Redder

(The). The adviser, the person who redes or interferes. Thus the proverb, “The redder gets aye the warst lick of the fray.”

Those that in quarrels interpose Must wipe themselves a bloody nose.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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