rutty

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Imprinted with ruts.

   • a rutty country road
   • 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.
   • […] old acquaintances separated by long rutty distances, or cooled acquaintances separated by misunderstandings concerning runaway calves […]
2. 2

   In a rut (dull routine).

   • Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.
   • Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.
   • We get lazy, then the church becomes rutty.
3. 3

   Related to a rut

   Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.

   • I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell
   • You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.
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   1. 4

      Full of roots.

      • […] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers,
      • […] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues, And with their verdure his white head embraues, To chide the windes,
   2. 5

      A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂…

      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 […]
      • […] vast numbers of infatuated wretches have accustomed themselves to consume from 6 rutties (9 grains) to a rupee’s weight (180 grains) of nearly pure opium daily […]

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