ruttle
/ɹˈʌtəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The most common cause of ruttles is acute viral bronchitis and, in young children, upper airway viral infection."
- "Ruttling, heard readily without a stethoscope, is due to air bubbling through fluid in the trachea or bronchi."
- "His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling."
Etymology
From Middle English rotelen, ratelen (“to make a rattling sound while breathing, flap”), from Middle Dutch rotelen (“to rattle, wheeze, drone”) or Middle Low German rōtelen, rātelen, rūtelen (“to groan, gasp, rattle”), from Old Saxon hrot, hrod (“snot, mucus”), from Proto-West Germanic *hroþ (“saliva, mucus, snot”), probably ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch reutelen (“to rattle”), German Rotz (“snot”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rotelen, rōtelen, hrot, *hroþ