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ruttle

The English word “ruttle” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.

verb

  1. To gurgle; to rattle when breathing.

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…

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