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rutty

American  
[ruht-ee] / ˈrʌt i /

adjective

ruttier, ruttiest
  1. full of or abounding in ruts, as a road.


rutty British  
/ ˈrʌtɪ /

adjective

  1. full of ruts or holes

    a rutty track

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of rutty

First recorded in 1590–1600; rut 1 + -y 1


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The tests are meant to simulate real world scenarios — from hurtling toward a target to being carted in an Air Force truck over a long, rutty road.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

To avoid turning an ankle on a rutty path, he told her to use the team’s facilities.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021

Over mountains, down dales, through spreading forests and along hard rutty roads trudged hundreds of Rumanian peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact was that President Kennedy had run into some rutty political detours.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Lias turned his team off the highway into the rutty lane that led up to the old home place.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Mud is muddier now than heretofore; and ruts are ruttier.

From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

He particularly describes it in the manuscript just cited, which Hakluyt had before him, as the ruttier of Alfonse which he publishes is found in that manuscript.

From The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Henry Cruse Murphy

The track had some really big rock clumps in it, but it was the ruttiest Supercross track that I have ever ridden.

From Time Magazine Archive

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