Rut

Quick meaning: Rut is a noun meaning (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.

Meaning

(zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.

More Meanings

1. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
3. (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
4. (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
5. (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
6. (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
7. (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: hump

Near-synonyms: grunt, roar

Early in Wicked Game, Steve goes into his first-ever rut.

VVhat Piety forbids the luſty Ram / Or more ſalacious Goat, to rut their Dam?

Word Forms

• ruts
• rutting
• rutted

Synonyms for rut

Depending on context, synonyms include heat, grunt, roar, blissom, brim, bull.

Antonyms for rut

Common opposites include anoestrus, anestrum, anoestrum, anestrus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include estrus, oestrus, heat, furrow, groove, quagmire.

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