routh

• IPA^(key): /ɹaʊθ/, /ɹuːθ/

routh

1. (chiefly dialectal) Plenty, abundance.
   • 1863, John Mackay Wilson, Wilson's Tales of the Borders ..., page 89:

     he would cross th' Atlantic Ocean, And seek the land of Spanish Main; And there amass a routh of treasure, And then come back with bosom leal To his own Marjory, and release her From rock and reel and spinning wheel.

   • 1913, The Living Age, page 808:

     There was more vodka in McNiel's story of the dinner and a routh of good talk between the little man and him- self. McNiel well remembered Nikolai and Stepan joining them when the time came for Auld Lang Syne, but the one fact of the evening he could never remember was whether he went […]

• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “ROUTH”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC., "sb. and adj. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Dur. Cum. Yks."

• rooth
• rowth
• ruth

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• IPA^(key): /rʌuθ/

routh

1. plentiful; abundant

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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• routhie
• routhiness
• routhness