rut

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

groove

furrow

track

estrus

oestrus

routine

channel

heat

be in heat

path

🛣️

slot

recess

wheel track

mating season

pot-hole

pothole

gash

habit

hole

🕳️

indent

indentation

pit

pitting

plash

plow

puddle

quirk

rebate

rift

ruck

rutting season

scallops

scour

stain

tracking

trough

wake

welt

mud puddle

estrum

get on heat

crack

depression

cover a female

have a rut

have rut

line of fate

steel pit

pairing-season

aperture

scoop channel

beard

breed

career

chase

chink

circuit

cranny

dent

ditch

drain

fillister

fissure

flute

🪈

fluting

gap

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹʌt/

Etymology

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