Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A late Middle English form of
rooty .
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Examples
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Oh, wait, all I have to do is splice any appearance she's had and it's the same act! ruty
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Dollars to doughnuts they talk about her behind her back like she is the "special" inbred cousin. ruty
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But just the opposite happened, and the jobs that can't be outsourced are insourced by illegals and H1B visa workers who live in cramped quarters that violate minimum housing standards and work for slave wages. ruty
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April 8th, 2010 9: 13 pm ET yet another Repub blaming the media ruty
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And no seeing Russia from her house doesn't count. ruty
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How much you wanna bet the "vivid contrast to Obama's secular, socialist machine" ends up being a religious, totalitarian machine? ruty
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April 8th, 2010 9: 13 pm ET yet another Repub blaming the media ruty
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I commend those who have gotten over their prejudice. ruty
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Th 'farmers wud plant annything fr'm a ruty baga to a congressman on his advice.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Besides my barn-chores, and all the wearin 'cares I have mentioned, I have five acres of potatoes to hoe and dig, a barn to shingle, a pig-pen to new cover, a smoke-house to fix, a bed of beets and a bed of turnips to dig, -- ruty bagys, -- and four big beds of onions to weed -- dumb' em! and six acres of corn to husk.
Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881
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