Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being ruttish.

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  • noun Feeling ruttish; sexual arousal.

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Examples

  • Without any knowledge of history, he was somehow able through his natural ruttishness to reinvent the complex and indulgent habits of an Eastern potentate, one of those Ottoman pashas, right down to holding court halfnaked in his sumptuous bedroom.

    Beard 2010

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