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   rut

   /rʌt/

   noun

   • 1. an annual period of sexual activity in deer and some other mammals, during which the males fight each other for access to the females: "a moose in rut"

   verb

   • 1. (of a deer or other mammal) engage in the rut or annual period of sexual activity: "researchers say the deer are rutting earlier"
   • ▪ engage in promiscuous or indiscriminate sexual activity: "if you want to smoke and cuss and rut and get completely drunk, then go for it"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin rugitus, from rugire ‘to roar’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ruttish adjective

   Scrabble Points: 3

   • R

     1

   • U

     1

   • T

     1

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