rutty
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Is rutty a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of rutty?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (US, dated) In a rut (dull routine).Examples: "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."USdated
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Full of roots.Examples: "[…] 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,"Synonyms: rootyobsolete
noun (English)
1. (India, obsolete) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+¹⁄₂ grains.Examples: "[…] they immediately desired to capitulate, and sent him, by way of ransom, a perfect diamond weighing two hundred and twenty four ruttys […]"; "1858, Henry Yule, Narrative of the Mission … to the Court of Ava, London: Smith, Elder, Appendix, “Note on Metals, Minerals, &c., of Burma,” p. 348, [Sapphires] of ten to fifteen rutties without a flaw are common, whereas a perfect ruby of that size is hardly ever seen."; "[…] 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 […]"Indiaobsolete
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