What is the meaning of RUT. Phrases containing RUT
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Rest area: heard throughout the Carolinas.(I've heard the term "ruth ann's" used by Gays in North Carolina since the early 80's. I think it may go back much further, having interviewed some Gay men who were young adults in the 1950's and they also used the word.).
a pound coin (£1) - apparently used in South Yorkshire UK - the story is that the slang was adopted during the extremely acrimonious and prolonged miners' strike of 1984 which coincided with the introduction of the pound coin. Margaret Thatcher acted firmly and ruthlessly in resisting the efforts of the miners and the unions to save the pit jobs and the British coalmining industry, reinforcing her reputation for exercising the full powers of the state, creating resentment among many. When the pound coin appeared it was immediately christened a 'Maggie', based seemingly on the notion that it was '...a brassy piece that thinks it's a sovereign..." (ack J Jamieson, Sep 2007) If you have more detail about where and when this slang arose and is used, please let me know. I am grateful to J Briggs for confirming (March 2008): "...I live in Penistone, South Yorks (what we call the West Riding) and it was certainly called a 'Brass Maggie' in my area. Typically in a derisive way, such as 'I wouldn't give you a brass maggie for that' for something overpriced but low value. It never really caught on and has died out now..."
n rutabaga.
Cry Ruth is slang for to vomit.
Butter
a halfpenny token having a figure of a ram, issued by a Harbour Grace merchant by the names of Rutherford in the 1850s
Johnny Rutter was old London Cockney rhyming slang for butter.
Sudden is Australian slang for fast, efficient.Sudden was old Australian slang for brutal, ruthless.
Auntie Ruth is London Cockney rhyming slang for tooth.
Show one's studs is slang for to be ruthless, brutal.
n. a dirt road used by fourwheeled vehicles rarely enough that their tires have made ruts that became parallel singletracks. Also called doubletrack. See singletrack.
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a.
Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
v. t.
To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.
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Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.
v. i.
To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
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Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.
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Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
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A salt of rutic acid.
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Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.
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Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceae) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.
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The cry of a buck in rutting time.
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Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.
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Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.
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That which ruts.
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Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).
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The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.
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A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue (Ruta graveolens) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.
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Ruttish; lustful.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Full of ruth
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