rut

Meanings

Noun

• Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
• The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
• Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
• In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
• A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
• A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
• A dull routine.

Verb

• To be in the annual rut or mating season.
• To have sexual intercourse.
• To have sexual intercourse with.
• To make a furrow.

Related

Similar words

• blissom, brim, bull, oestruate

Origin

• From Middle English rutte and rutten, from Old French rut ("noise, roar, bellowing"), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre.
• Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route ("road"), from Old French route. See also rutter.