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ruttle en · NOUN
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”).
Meanings
(Northern-England) A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
The most common cause of ruttles is acute viral bronchitis and, in young children, upper airway viral infection. 2018, Sotirios Fouzas et al., “Clinical Usefulness of Breath Sounds”, in Kostas Priftis et al., editors, Breath Sounds: From Basic Science to Clinical Practice, page 44:
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ruttle en · VERB
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”).
Meanings
(Northern-England, intransitive) To gurgle; to rattle when breathing.
Ruttling, heard readily without a stethoscope, is due to air bubbling through fluid in the trachea or bronchi. 1973, Ronald Illingworth, Common Symptoms of Disease in Children, page 144:
His breath ruttled as he blew outward and sent the plants to trembling. 2020, Marly Youmans, Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England, page 216: