ruttle
A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathingA rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
Meaning
1 senses(Northern England)A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty in breathing.
Origin
From Middle English rotelen, ratelen (“to make a rattling sound while breathing, flap”), fFrom 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.
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