rut

• IPA^(key): /ɹʌt/

Borrowed from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

rut (plural ruts)

1. (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

a rut on a main road (sense 1)

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”). See also rutter.

rut (plural ruts)

1. 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

2. (figuratively) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figuratively) A dull routine.

   Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.

rut (third-person singular simple present ruts, present participle rutting, simple past and past participle rutted)

1. (transitive) To make a furrow.

• Rut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• RTU, URT, UTR, tur

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian)

From Old High German rōt.

• IPA^(key): /ʀuːt/

rut (masculine rude, feminine rut, comparative ruder, superlative rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

From Old French rut, ruit, inherited from Latin rugītus. Doublet of rugi, past participle of rugir.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyt/

rut m (plural ruts)

1. rut (sexual excitement)

• “rut” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• rút

An onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrut]
• Hyphenation: rut

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)
   • 1893, Kálmán Mikszáth, Az eladó birtok‎:

     Csak az eperfa alatt sétálgató, felborzolt tollú pulyka kiabálta: rut, rut.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎:

     Rút! Rút! Rút! / Föl is, le is út: / mérges Pulyka, te szereted / csak a háborút!

     Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! / Go away: / angry Turkey, only you like / war!

   • xxxx, Csanádi Imre, Hangverseny (Concert)‎:

     Pulyka mondja: rut, rut, rut! / Aki kapzsi, mindig rút!

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), akin to German rot, Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

rūt

1. red