rut
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹʌt/
rut (plural ruts)
- (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals. [from early 15th c.]
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- French: rut
- German: Brunft, Brunst
- Italian: estro, foia, fregola
- Portuguese: cio
- Russian: половой
- Spanish: estro, brama, celo
rut (ruts, present participle rutting; past and past participle rutted)
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (be in mating season) blissom, brim, bull, oestruate
- (have sexual intercourse) do it, get some, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (have sexual intercourse with) coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- French: être en rut
- German: brunften, brunsten
- Portuguese: estar em cio
- Russian: быть в охо́те
- Spanish: estar en brama, estar en celo
rut (plural ruts)
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: groove, furrow
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]
- Synonyms: routine
- (figurative) A dull routine.
- Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.
- French: ornière
- German: Furche, Spur, Spurrille
- Portuguese: sulco, rodeira
- Russian: колея́
- Spanish: rodera, surco, rodada
- French: ornière, voie de garage
- German: Trott
- Russian: рути́на
rut (ruts, present participle rutting; past and past participle rutted)
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002