Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full of ruts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of ruts; cut by wheels.
  • Ruttish; lustful.
  • An obsolete or dialectal variant of rooty. Spenser.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Ruttish; rutting; lustful.
  • adjective Full of ruts; rutted.
  • adjective obsolete Rooty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Rutted.
  • adjective Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal; ruttish; lustful.
  • adjective obsolete rooty

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective full of ruts

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Examples

  • Gary: Yeah, that did amuse me. @rutty: I think CV are a great example ... mupwangle: I'm sure that CV were also thrilled to be included ... rutty: Stephen Green causes teenage infertility.

    Bigmouth Strikes Again 2009

  • We drove for hours on an isolated, rutty, one-lane dirt road.

    Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010

  • I find No. 89 completely desirable but not always manageable, as I discovered one day when I wore it to work and the rather rutty oakmoss and musk made themselves known.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • I find No. 89 completely desirable but not always manageable, as I discovered one day when I wore it to work and the rather rutty oakmoss and musk made themselves known.

    Bond, James Bond Marina Geigert 2009

  • Having a particularly rutty day (please see this video, I promise I clean up nice), I was eager to get out of my blahs by cruising the StyleCaster site.

    Andrea Chalupa: StyleCaster: A Free Personal Stylist, Only Nicer 2009

  • Here the elements had washed the tar away completely and the end of the road was only a rutty memory, but it was good enough for the Mercedes, which jounced and bucketed up a long hill toward two stone pillars.

    Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

  • The jolting of the cart on a loose stony road awoke me; and I found that we were mounting a steep hill, where the road was a rutty by - road through a field.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • I could relate to the f*ckeduptitude of it all and yearned for what seemed to me like a cosmic escape preferable to my rutty personal situation.

    "Just a word from her lips/And the deaf begin to hear." Ann Althouse 2007

  • His battered lemon-yellow 914 was still clicking in the cool rain as he splashed down the rutty red-clay drive that always reminded him of North Carolina.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • The jolting of the cart on a loose stony road awoke me; and I found that we were mounting a steep hill, where the road was a rutty by - road through a field.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

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