Rutty
adj, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains. India, obsolete
"[…] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […]"
- 1 Imprinted with ruts.
"a rutty country road"
- 2 Full of roots. obsolete
"[…] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers,"
- 3 In a rut (dull routine). US, dated
"Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways."
- 4 Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
"I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell"
- 1 full of ruts wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From rut + -y.
From Hindi रत्ती (rattī), literally “the seed of the plant Abrus precatorius.”
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