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Rutty vs Nutty - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between rutty and nutty

is that rutty is rutted; imprinted with ruts or rutty can be (obsolete) rooty while nutty is containing nuts.

rutty

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Rutted; imprinted with ruts.
    • a rutty country road
  • Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal; ruttish; lustful.

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) rooty
    • (Spenser)

    nutty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Containing nuts
  • Reminiscent of nuts
  • * 1997 , Mary Jo Plutt, Prevention's Stop Dieting and Lose Weight Cookbook , Rodale, ISBN 0875964699, p. 210:
    • Brown rice has had only its outer hull removed, leaving it with a beige color and a a pleasantly nutty flavor.
  • Barmy, crazy, mad.

    • Usage notes

    In sense “insane”, similar to nuts, but more limited and somewhat milder: nutty means “eccentric, insane”, while “nuts” can mean either “insane” or “enthused, agitated” (“the crowd went nuts”), for which “nutty” is not used: *“the crowd went nutty”.

    Synonyms

    * nuts, squirrelly * See also

    Related terms

    * nutter * nutty as a fruitcake