▪ I. rutty, a.
(ˈrʌtɪ)
[f. rut n.2 + -y.]
1. Marked by, full of, abounding in, ruts.
| 1596 Spenser Prothalamion 12 Themmes, Whose rutty Bancke..Was paynted all with variable flowers. 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Triumph ii, That heav'nly voice I more delight to heare, Then..whistling reeds, that rutty Jordan laves. 1767 G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 14 Some long and rutty lane. 1810 Splendid Follies I. 156 A dirty narrow rutty green. 1865 Knight Passages Work. 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 Karp. 7 We dashed down the rutty road. |
| transf. 1892 Temple Bar Nov. 374 There is too much rutty conventionality about. |
2. Of a drive: Performed on a rutted road.
| 1883 Ld. R. Gower Rem. II. xxi. 61 After a rough and rutty drive, Bolsover Castle..was reached. |
3. Deeply sunk or furrowed.
| 1894 K. Grahame Pagan P. 108 Mud is muddier now than heretofore; and ruts are ruttier. |
▪ II. † ˈrutty
(also roty),
used in refrains. Obs.
| 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 757 Rutty bully, ioly rutterkyn, heyda! a 1529 ― Agst. comely Coystrowne 29 He lumbryth on a lewde lewte, Roty bully joyse,..hey go, now, now! |