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rutched

rutched is the simple past and past participle of rutch.

Meaning of rutch

Verb

rutch (third-person singular simple present rutches, present participle rutching, simple past and past participle rutched)

  1. (US, archaic, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.
    • Then Ismail set the pace yet faster, and they became the last two of a procession of turbaned men who tramped along a winding tunnel into a great mountain's womb. The sound of slippers clicking and rutching on the rock floor swelled and died and swelled again ...1916, Talbot Mundy, King-of the Khyber rifles: a romance of adventure, page 201
  2. (Dutch, English, Pennsylvania, especially) To squirm; to move around frequently.
    • 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!"2010, Robert Struesel, He Said I Could: Extraordinary from the Ordinary, iUniverse, →ISBN

Questions about rutched

What is rutched the simple past and past participle of?
Rutched is the simple past and past participle of rutch.

Words near rutched in the dictionary

  1. Rutans
  2. Rutas
  3. rutate
  4. rutates
  5. rutch
  6. rutched
  7. rutches
  8. rutching
  9. rute
  10. rutecarpine
  11. rutelid

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