different between ruttle vs cuttle

English

Etymology

Middle English rotelen, ratelen (“to rattle”).

Noun

ruttle (plural ruttles)

1. (obsolete) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.

Verb

ruttle (third-person singular simple present ruttles, present participle ruttling, simple past and past participle ruttled)

1. (intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To gurgle.

Anagrams

• Lutter, Turtle, turlet, turtle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudil?, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -il?, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew-, *g?- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. Synonym of cuttlefish

Etymology 2

From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. See cutlass.

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. (obsolete) A knife.

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Etymology 3

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. (obsolete) A foul-mouthed fellow.

Anagrams

• cutlet