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 Rusty Buckles (The), subs. phr. military).—The Second Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays): also "The Bays."

Ruttish, adj. (venery).—Lecherous (Grose): also in rut and rutty. Hence rutting (or rutting-sport) = the deed of kind; RUT, verb. (see quot. 1679); and rutter (q.v.).

1598. Shakspeare, All's Well, iv. 3, 243. A foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish.

1670. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft [Works (1725), 192]. What with some Goddess he'd have bin Playing, belike, at In-and-In, And would be at the Rutting-sport?

1679. Dryden, Ovid's Metam., x. What piety forbids the lusty ram, Or more salacious goat, to rut their dam?

To keep a rut, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To play the meddler; to make mischief.

Rutat (or Rattat), subs. (back slang).—A potato; a 'tatur.'

Rutter, subs. (venery).—1. A man or woman IN rut (q.v.); and (2) Elizabethan for the German reiter.

1596. Lodge, Wit's Miserie. Some authors have compared it to a rutter's codpiece.

c. 1618. Fletcher, Custom of Country, iii. 3. The rutter, too, is gone. Ibid. (c. 1620), The Woman's Prize, i. 4. Such a regiment of rutters Never defied men braver.

Ry, subs. (Stock Exchange).—A dishonest practice; a sharp dodge.

Ryder, subs. (common).—A cloak.

Rye. See Romany.

Rye-buck, adv. (American).—All right; O. K. (q.v.).