Sekirov Dictionary

rutty

/ˈɹʌti/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 5

adjective4

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Imprinted with ruts.
- But I’m oblig’d each day to roam Many a furlong from my home, And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick From off the ground a single stick; Or, in some long and rutty lane, I find by chance a single grain. — 1767
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Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
- I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell — 1970
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(US, old-fashioned) In a rut (dull routine).
- Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways. — 1893
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(no longer used) Full of roots.
- […] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers, — 1596

noun1

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(India, no longer used) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.
- […] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […] — 1768

forms

ruttees · rutties · ruttys · ruttier · ruttiest

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