ruttle
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of ruttle
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Northern-England)A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
“The most common cause of ruttles is acute viral bronchitis and, in young children, upper airway viral infection.”
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noun
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(Northern-England)A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
“The most common cause of ruttles is acute viral bronchitis and, in young children, upper airway viral infection.”
verb
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(Northern-England, intransitive)To gurgle; to rattle when breathing.
“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.”
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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,…
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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”).
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