rut

• IPA^(key): /ɹʌt/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɹʊt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

rut (countable and uncountable, 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.
4. (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
   • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega?: Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 36:

     Proximity to an omega in heat can sometimes cause alphas go into rut, an aggressive need for sexual intercourse usually triggered by the scent of an omega in heat.

   • 2019, Tessa Barone, "Just Go Find Yourself a Nice Alpha: Gender and Consent in Supernatural Fandom's Alpha/Beta/Omega Universe", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 34:

     All the characters in this story pressure Dean to help Castiel through his rut, and clearly consider Dean’s resistance to be immature and an overreaction.

   • 2019, Chris van der Vegt, "The Second Genders: Utopia and Dystopia in​ Stranger Things Omegaverse Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 23:

     Early in ​Wicked Game,​ Steve goes into his first-ever rut.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rut.

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.

   Synonyms: blissom, brim, bull, oestruate

2. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

   Synonyms: do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

3. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2004, Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom:

     “Alfred,” Ragnar continued scathingly. “All he cares about is rutting girls, which is good! […]”

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cinyras and Myrrha, out of the Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphosis”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 175:

     VVhat Piety forbids the luſty Ram / Or more ſalacious Goat, to rut their Dam?

4. (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.

   Near-synonym: hump

   • 1999 May 22, Joanna Woodcock, “Female dog desire ?”, in alt.animals.dog‎^[1] (Usenet):

     We have just rescued a dog from a shelter; she has a great personality, except the one problem with her is that she ocassionally likes to "rut" against my husband's leg or arm !

   • 2001 September 8, Looney, “On a sidenote”, in alt.underground‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I'd bend over and wait...and wait...and wait... finally turning around to see him rutting against a table leg.

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. 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. (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]

   Synonym: routine

3. (figurative) A dull routine.

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

   • 1980, Paul Weller (lyrics and music), “Going Underground”, in Setting Sons, performed by The Jam:

     Some people might say my life is in a rut / I'm quite happy with what I got

• rutway
• stuck 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

• rut roh (etymologically unrelated)

• tru-, URT, UTR, Tur, RTU, TRU, tur, tru

• rot (southern Moselle Franconian and Siegerland)

From Old High German rōt.

• IPA^(key): /ʀuːt/

rut (masculine rude or ruhe, feminine and plural rut or ruh or rude, comparative ruder or ruher, superlative et rutste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) red

• The inflections with loss of -d- are restricted to westernmost Ripuarian.

Colors in Central Franconian · Färve (layout · text)

Wieß, Wies, Weiß	Jries, Greis, Jroo, Groo	Zjwats, Schwats
Rut, Roeëd; Kérmes, Karmieng	Amber; Brong, Broun, Brung, Broeng	Jäl, Jeël, Jell, Gäl; Oker
Liem, Lich Jrön	Jrön, Green, Grien, Jreun, Jröng	Minz Jrön; Donkeljrön, Donkerjreun, Donkeljröng
Turquoise, Turkwaas	Blau (Hellblau, Himmelblau)	Blau, Blauw, Bloo, Bloh (Donkelblau, Donkelbloo)
Violett; Indiego	Majénta; Lila	Rose, Rosrut

Inherited 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)

• en rut

• “rut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rút

An onomatopoeia.

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

rut

1. gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)
   • 1893, Kálmán Mikszáth, Az eladó birtok‎^[3]:

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎^[4], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:

     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!

   • 2018 July 22, Csanádi Imre, Hangverseny (Concert)‎^[5]:

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

Akin to German rot, Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood)

rūt

1. red