Rutch

Quick meaning: Rutch is a verb meaning (US, archaic in Yorkshire, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.

Meaning

(US, archaic in Yorkshire, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.

More Meanings

1. (especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently.

Example Sentences

The twelfth had his chair half turned and was playing across a far corner of the table the board-game that made the occasional tiny rutching noises.

"Ponsonby, my boy." The man in drab silk slipped into a chair next to Kirby's as a wolf slips into his lair, very circumspectly, and without noise; then he rutched the chair sidewise toward Kirby […]

Sitting on hard wooden chairs in school didn't help one bit, and I had an especially difficult time sitting still in class. One of my teachers was quite versed in Pennsylvania Dutch, and kept saying, “Quit your rutching!"

Then, having salaamed the diwan obsequiously, he walked to the nearest gate with the heels of his loose sandals rutching on the gravel and dislike of exercise written all over him as if he were a Hindu merchant to the manner born.

Word Forms

• rutches
• rutching
• rutched
• rutsch

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rutsch, rootch, ooch, scooch, ruck, shuck.

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