Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lustful; libidinous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lustful; libidinous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeling great sexual desire
Examples
“Nightly these acolytes oblate their flesh to the Trickster God, the ruttish goat totem.”
“In the same role, Carlos Lopez was appropriately goatish and ruttish.”
“A Chinese protagonist who is actually likable, Moia Hsu comes complete with an ex-boyfriend who follows her, muttering, "" The capitalist pig was teaching her the habits of ruttish swine. '”
“While his sex burned with the flames of raw, ruttish passion, his hands and feet were suffering another sort of burning, the kind that comes from exposure to extreme cold.”
“One could count on seeing cartons of militantly smoked cigarettes, plenty of on-the-job hanky-panky and, in his late-period panty movies, ruttish lesbians and multiple grand-mal orgasms.”
“Grounded in figures of soldiery, of gladiators, of the hunt, of animals enraged or ruttish, it is like a manual of instructions, such as The Prince.”
“That is not the dukes letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish.”
“Franklin Gutierrez stroked a two- away from separate, shawl secondarily and came eternal folks' on a Casey Kotchman ruttish hit.”
“Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.”
“That is not the duke’s letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.”
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Ada, or Ardor
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fatidic, herbarium, volitation, plafond, pseudopodal, hongry, dolent, dackel, fubsy, hurdies, palpebral, twayblade and 98 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Cellar Door
It's the way the letters combine to form an beautiful whole and the way its sound tickles the ear.
capricious, sigh, jest, psyche, elf, wither, languish, wane, fade, caustic, pithy, epicene and 121 more...
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Slings and Arrows: Shakespearean Insults
artless, baudy, beslubbering, bootless, churlish, cockered, clouted, craven, dankish, dissembling, droning, errant and 116 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
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Lust
SEXy words
cocotte, strumpet, harlot, quean, concupiscence, orgiastic, succubus, odalisque, paramour, quim, tumid, tumescent and 68 more...
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Lust
concupiscence, lecherousness, lascivious, libidinous, salacious, tentiginous, venereous, carnality, lubricious, amorous, lickerous, lewd and 15 more...
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Emotions & Feelings
felicific, felicity, beatific, sanguine, anodyne, doleful, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, tumult, noxious, indurate and 74 more...
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notable
tintype, filature, cyanotype, haptic, haecceity, kenspeck, plex, moreish, damask, cerise, calid, calamus and 20 more...
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69 Across
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zooerastia, whoremasterly, wee-wee, trollop, tribadistic, stiffy, spermary, smooching, shtup, sexy, sapphic, ruttish and 19 more...
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yarb ...he reflected abjectly that he would have to endure, if conforming to his innermost code of honour, five such days of ruttish ache...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor Jun 5, 2008