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noun a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
origin* As a German surname, variant of Rother. * Also as a German surname, from Middle High German rotte (“gang, team”) (see modern rotten (“to gang up”)). * As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Germanized from Rotar, from dialectal rote (“clearing in the uplands”), itself from Old High German rût; see modern roden (“to clear land”). * As an English surname, variant of Rutter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0