routh

See also: Routh

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rʌuθ/

Adjective

routh

  1. plentiful; abundant

Noun

routh (plural rouths)

  1. plenty, abundance
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.
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  • routhie
  • routhiness
  • routhness
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