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rugate

[roo-geyt, -git]

adjective

  1. wrinkle; rugose.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rugate1

1840–50; < Latin rūgātus, past participle of rūgāre to become wrinkled. See ruga, -ate 1
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Mobbery brewed in Jackson, Ky., after Chester Rugate, tenant farmer, had murdered prosperous, farm-owning Lawyer Clay Watkins, his landlord.

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