rut

Betekenis

Noun

1. Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
4. (slang) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.

Verb

1. To be in the annual rut or mating season.
2. To have sexual intercourse.
3. To have sexual intercourse with.

Verb

To make a furrow.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɹʌt/

Etymologie

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).