ruttle

== English == === 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 rattle”), German Rotz (“snot”). === Noun === ruttle (plural ruttles) (chiefly Northern England) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing. === Verb === ruttle (third-person singular simple present ruttles, present participle ruttling, simple past and past participle ruttled) (intransitive, chiefly Northern England) To gurgle; to rattle when breathing. === Further reading === “ruttle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Lutter, Turtle, turlet, turtle