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rut
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rug?tus, from rug?re (“to roar”).
Noun
rut (plural ruts)
- (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
Translations
Verb
rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- What piety forbids the lusty ram
Or more salacious goat to rut their dam
- What piety forbids the lusty ram
Synonyms
- (be in mating season): blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
- (have sexual intercourse): do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.
Noun
rut (plural ruts)
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: groove, furrow
- (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]
- Synonym: routine
- (figuratively) A dull routine.
Translations
Verb
rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
Translations
Further reading
- Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- RTU, URT, UTR, tur
Central Franconian
Alternative forms
- rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)
Etymology
From Old High German r?t.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?t/
Adjective
rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine rut or ruh, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)
- (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red
Usage notes
- The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.
French
Etymology
From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rug?tus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?yt/
Noun
rut m (plural ruts)
- rut (sexual excitement)
Derived terms
- en rut
Further reading
- “rut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- rút
Etymology
An onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?rut]
- Hyphenation: rut
- Rhymes: -ut
Interjection
rut
- gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)
Vilamovian
Etymology
From Middle High German r?t (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German r?t (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.
Akin to German rot, Old Saxon r?d, Old Dutch r?d (modern Dutch rood)
Adjective
r?t
- red
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dull
English
Alternative forms
- dul, dulle (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English dull, dul (also dyll, dill, dwal), from Old English dol (“dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”), from Proto-Germanic *dulaz, a variant of *dwalaz (“stunned, mad, foolish, misled”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?wel-, *d?ewel- (“to dim, dull, cloud, make obscure, swirl, whirl”). Cognate with Scots dull, doll (“slow to understand or hear, deaf, dull”), North Frisian dol (“rash, unthinking, giddy, flippant”), Dutch dol (“crazy, mad, insane”), Low German dul, dol (“mad, silly, stupid, fatuous”), German toll (“crazy, mad, wild, fantastic”), Danish dval (“foolish, absurd”), Icelandic dulur (“secretive, silent”), West-Flemish dul (angry, furious).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?l/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /d?l/, /d?l/, /d??/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -?l
Adjective
dull (comparative duller, superlative dullest)
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- a dull fire or lamp;? a dull red or yellow;? a dull mirror
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Sluggish, listless.
- This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
- O, help my weak wit and sharpen my dull tongue.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Think me not / So dull a devil to forget the loss / Of such a matchless wife.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- c. 1857', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Table-Talk
- As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of study a dull brain.
- c. 1857', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Table-Talk
- (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Pressing on the bruise produces a dull pain.
- (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:boring
- See also Thesaurus:stupid
- (not shiny): lackluster, matte
Antonyms
- bright
- intelligent
- sharp
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
dull (third-person singular simple present dulls, present participle dulling, simple past and past participle dulled)
- (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- Years of misuse have dulled the tools.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- This […] dulled their swords.
- (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- He drinks to dull the pain.
- 1850, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord
- Use and custom have so dulled our eyes.
- (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
- A razor will dull with use.
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
Synonyms
- dullen
Translations
References
- dull in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dull in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- ULDL
Welsh
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /d???/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /d??/
Noun
dull m (plural dulliau)
- method
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “dull”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
References
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