routh

See also: Routh

Scots

Alternative forms

• rooth
• rowth
• ruth

Etymology

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Pronunciatio

• 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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Related terms

• routhie
• routhiness
• routhness