See rutch on Wiktionary
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"text": "Oata […] rutches herself over the middle of the seat […]\n[…]\nAnd I know for sure that I have a pink face because the stubble on my chin feels hot and Oata rutches her chair closer to me so she can pour the last wine from the catsup bottle into our glasses […]",
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"ref": "1996, Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber's Lean times in Lankhmar, White Wolf Pub:",
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"ref": "2018, Talbot Mundy, Thirteen Books, B&R Samizdat Express, →ISBN:",
"text": "\"Ponsonby, my boy.\" The man in drab silk slipped into a chair next to Kirby's as a wolf slips into his lair, very circumspectly, and without noise; then he rutched the chair sidewise toward Kirby […]",
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"(especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently."
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"text": "Oata […] rutches herself over the middle of the seat […]\n[…]\nAnd I know for sure that I have a pink face because the stubble on my chin feels hot and Oata rutches her chair closer to me so she can pour the last wine from the catsup bottle into our glasses […]",
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"text": "The twelfth had his chair half turned and was playing across a far corner of the table the board-game that made the occasional tiny rutching noises.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2018, Talbot Mundy, Thirteen Books, B&R Samizdat Express, →ISBN:",
"text": "\"Ponsonby, my boy.\" The man in drab silk slipped into a chair next to Kirby's as a wolf slips into his lair, very circumspectly, and without noise; then he rutched the chair sidewise toward Kirby […]",
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"(especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently."
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Download raw JSONL data for rutch meaning in All languages combined (4.8kB)
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