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Scots
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
routh
- plentiful; abundant
Noun
routh (plural rouths)
- 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)