jut
/d͡ʒʌt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that sticks out.
Example Sentences
- "the jutting part of a building"
- "1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem."
- "The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor."
- "...enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each."
- "Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay."
- "1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden the jutting steer"
Etymology
From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.