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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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gutter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???t.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???t.?/, /???t?.?/
- Rhymes: -?t?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).
Noun
gutter (plural gutters)
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (Britain) A drainage channel.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- (comics) The spaces between comic book panels
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: gotro
Translations
See also
- gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- gout
Verb
gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)
- To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
- (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
Translations
Etymology 2
gut +? -er
Noun
gutter (plural gutters)
- One who or that which guts.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
Danish
Noun
gutter c
- indefinite plural of gut
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Noun
gutter m
- indefinite plural of gutt
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