# rutty
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹʌti/
* Rhymes: -ʌti
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From rut +‎ -y.

#### Adjective

rutty (comparative ruttier, superlative ruttiest)
* Imprinted with ruts.
    Synonym: rutted
    a rutty country road
** 1767, George Saville Carey, “The Peasant and Ant. A Fable”, in The Hills of Hybla‎, London: for the author, page 14:But I’m oblig’d each day to roam Many a furlong from my home, And cry, good luck, whene’er I pick From off the ground a single stick; Or, in some long and rutty lane, I find by chance a single grain.
** 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner‎, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 174:[…] old acquaintances separated by long rutty distances, or cooled acquaintances separated by misunderstandings concerning runaway calves […]
** 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 5, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:We drove way out to the desert the other side of town and turned on a rutty dirt road that made the car bounce as never before.
* (US, dated) In a rut (dull routine).
** 1893, Frederick S. Parkhurst, Work and Workers: Practical Suggestions for the Junior Epworth League‎, New York: Hunt & Eaton, page 63:Constantly vary your way of doing things; avoid humdrum, rutty, and monotonous ways.
** 1913, Orison Swett Marden, The Joys of Living‎, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, page 97:Everywhere we see men who have gone to seed early, become rutty and uninteresting, because they worked too much and played too little.
** 1922, Edgar Hurst Cherington, chapter 23, in The Line is Busy,‎, New York: Abingdon Press, page 26:We get lazy, then the church becomes rutty.
* Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal.
    Synonyms: ruttish, lustful
** 1970, Ramon Guthrie, “Loin de Moi …”, in Maximum Security Ward‎, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 45:I am lying here stifling in the rutty goat smell
** 2001, Fred Mustard Stewart, chapter 30, in The Savages in Love and War,‎, New York: Forge, page 275:You may even get picked up by a German soldier. They’re a rutty bunch now that they’re away from their fat frauleins and meeting some real French women.

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

rutty (comparative ruttier, superlative ruttiest)
* (obsolete) Full of roots.
    Synonym: rooty
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion‎, London: William Ponsonby:[…] the shoare of siluer streaming Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke, the which his Riuer hemmes, Was paynted all with variable flowers,
** 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heauen, and Earth, Over, and After Death‎, Cambridge, page 47:[…] whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laues, And with their verdure his white head embraues, To chide the windes,

### Etymology 3

From Hindi रत्ती (rattī), literally “the seed of the plant Abrus precatorius.”

#### Noun

rutty (plural rutties or ruttys or ruttees)
* (India, obsolete) A unit of weight used for metals, precious stones and medicines, equivalent to 1+$^1$⁄$_2$ grains.
** 1768, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, The History of Hindostan‎, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 12, p. 112:[…] 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.
** 1870, Norman Chevers, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence for India‎, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, page 227:[…] 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 […]

### References

* ↑ Henry Yule et al., Hobson-Jobson, London: John Murray, 1886, p. 587.