English Explanatory Dictionary

rut

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
  2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
  3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
  4. In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
verb
  1. To be in the annual rut or mating season.
  2. To have sexual intercourse.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
noun
  1. A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
  2. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
  3. A dull routine.
verb
  1. To make a furrow.

Pronunciation

/ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rut.wav /ɹʊt/

Word forms

rut ruts rutting rutted

Etymology

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Synonyms

heat grunt roar blissom brim bull oestruate do it get some have sex approach cohabit common company copulate couple engage in sex exchange flesh have intimate relations have marital relations have sexual relations intercourse know know someone in the biblical sense make love mate share a bed sleep together strain bang bauf beat bone boff boink bonk bop bounce breed bump nasties bump uglies catch a dick clap cheeks dance discuss Uganda dip one's pen in someone's inkwell do the deed do the nasty eff engender expletive deleted frack frak frick frig fuck get busy get down get freaky get it

Related words

heat rut roh

Derived words

ruttish rutty in a rut rutless rutway snowrut stuck in a rut
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