单词 | rutty |
释义 | † ruttyn. Obsolete. rare. A meaningless word used in refrains. ΚΠ ?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne He lumbryth on a lewde lewte roty bully Joy. Rumbyll downe tumbyll downe hey go now now. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ci v Rutty bully Ioly rutterkyn heyda. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). ruttyadj. 1. a. Marked by or full of ruts; characterized by many or pronounced ruts. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > full of ruts or holes rutty1596 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > fit for (spec. type of) traffic > in bad condition wickeda1375 deepc1386 rutty1596 rutted1607 founderous1767 ditchy1888 1596 E. Spenser Prothalamion 12 Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke..Was paynted all with variable flowers. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 47 That heau'nly voice I more delight to heare, Then..whistling reeds, that rutty Iordan laves. 1640 H. Hexham Princ. Art Mil. iii. 5 Durtie and ruttie waies. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Oct. xv. 73 Their rutty, uneven By-roads and Lanes. 1767 G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 14 Some long and rutty lane. 1810 Splendid Follies I. 156 A dirty narrow rutty green. 1865 C. Knight Passages Working Life II. xiii. 264 No sound of wheels was heard but that of the cart labouring through the rutty ways. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 7 We dashed down the rutty road. 1916 E. Wharton Xingu viii. vii. 358 They walked along a rutty road. 1935 L. Mann Human Drift xviii. 127 They jolted..along the track.., rough and rutty. 1984 Kenyon Rev. 6 32 Cheney went slow, the truck wallowing up the rutty drive. 2009 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 24 Aug. a1 The rocky, rutty and sometimes uneven grassy fields. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1891 M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies xxiii. 274 I am just one of the ruttiest of the people who always drive their wheel of life through the ruts. 1892 Temple Bar Nov. 374 There is too much rutty conventionality about. 1907 O. S. Marden Optimistic Life ix. 72 As if money, with a narrow horizon, with a sordid and rutty life, can for a moment compare with the satisfaction which comes from being put into touch with all the world by a love for knowledge. 1999 B. Solomon Where they ain't 33 Byrne had grown tired of the rutty work of the overpaid veterans. 2009 Times (Nexis) 5 Sept. 16 What I wear is not so much a question of wanting to be avant-garde, but more hoping not to look stuck in a rutty past. 2. Taking place on a rutted road. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [adjective] > jolting on rutted road (of drive) rutty1883 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxi. 61 After a rough and rutty drive, Bolsover Castle..was reached. 2002 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 30 Apr. 15 The research center, a 45-minute, rutty drive from the airstrip, is completely self-supporting. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > fit for (spec. type of) traffic > in bad condition > (of ruts) deeply sunk or furrowed rutty1894 1894 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 108 Mud is muddier now than heretofore; and ruts are ruttier. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1527adj.1596 |
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