Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lustful; libidinous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lustful; libidinous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious.

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  • adjective Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal; rutty; lustful.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective feeling great sexual desire

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Examples

  • Nightly these acolytes oblate their flesh to the Trickster God, the ruttish goat totem.

    E (novel extract) 2010

  • In the same role, Carlos Lopez was appropriately goatish and ruttish.

    Meet New ABT Phenom, Natalia Osipova 2009

  • In the same role, Carlos Lopez was appropriately goatish and ruttish.

    Meet New ABT Phenom, Natalia Osipova 2009

  • A Chinese protagonist who is actually likable, Moia Hsu comes complete with an ex-boyfriend who follows her, muttering, "" The capitalist pig was teaching her the habits of ruttish swine. ''

    Move Over, Suzie Wong 2008

  • While his sex burned with the flames of raw, ruttish passion, his hands and feet were suffering another sort of burning, the kind that comes from exposure to extreme cold.

    Sexy Beast IV Kate Douglas, Deanna Lee, Dawn Thompson 2008

  • One could count on seeing cartons of militantly smoked cigarettes, plenty of on-the-job hanky-panky and, in his late-period panty movies, ruttish lesbians and multiple grand-mal orgasms.

    The Hollywood Beast Roars 2004

  • Grounded in figures of soldiery, of gladiators, of the hunt, of animals enraged or ruttish, it is like a manual of instructions, such as The Prince.

    An Exchange on Machiavelli Burke, Kenneth 1972

  • That is not the duke’s letter, sir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish.

    Act IV. Scene III. All’s Well that Ends Well 1914

  • Franklin Gutierrez stroked a two- away from separate, shawl secondarily and came eternal folks' on a Casey Kotchman ruttish hit.

    Top Information about Home Management 2010

  • Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.

    All's Well That Ends Well 1601

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  • ...he reflected abjectly that he would have to endure, if conforming to his innermost code of honour, five such days of ruttish ache...

    - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

    June 5, 2008