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jut

UK/d͡ʒʌt/US/d͡ʒʌt/
verbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,945 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: jutting, juts, jutted

To jut is to stick out beyond the surrounding surface. A rock from a cliff, a chin pushed forward.

It nearly always takes out, so jut out is really the whole verb. Landscape uses it constantly — a headland jutting into the sea, a beam jutting from a wall. Bodies do it too, and a jutting jaw signals determination in a hundred novels. The word is short, blunt and physical, which suits what it describes. Protrude is the formal version and stick out is the plain one.

Definitions of jut

  1. 1verbjutTo stick out beyond a surface or edge.B2+

    “A narrow ledge jutted out over the water.”

Where it comes from

To jut was to swagger. Middle English jetten meant to strut or to show off, and the altered form jutten kept the sticking out and dropped the vanity.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(H)yeh₁-

  2. Middle English

    jutten — to project, jut out

  3. English, today

    jut

Built from

  • jetten · Middle English — to strut, be showy

From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at jet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove, A Song of Ice and Fire

First appears in chapter 31 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

jut in the wild

  • Parts of Vejalpur, Daskroi, Danilimda, Vatva, and Maninagar assembly constituencies jut into Lambha.

    Lambha

  • The diameter is 8.7 metres and there are 18 thin jagged pillars which jut upwards from the low cairn.

    Bryn Cader Faner

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.