Ruff

Word RUFF
Character 4
Hyphenation ruff
Pronunciations /ɹʌf/

Definitions and meanings of "Ruff"

What do we mean by ruff?

A stiffly starched frilled or pleated circular collar of lace, muslin, or other fine fabric, worn by men and women in the 1500s and 1600s. noun

A distinctive collarlike projection around the neck, as of feathers on a bird or of fur on a mammal. noun

A migratory sandpiper (Philomachus pugnax) of the Eastern Hemisphere, the male of which has collarlike, erectile feathers around the neck during the breeding season. noun

The playing of a trump card when one cannot follow suit. noun

An old game resembling whist. noun

To trump or play a trump. transitive & intransitive verb

Any of several marine fishes of the family Centrolophidae, usually having spiny dorsal fins. noun

A small edible fish (Arripis georgianus) of coastal and estuarine waters of southern Australia. noun

A large integumental fold surrounding the base of the foot of Haliotis, the ear-shell. noun

A dialectal form of roof. noun

An old game at cards, the predecessor of whist. noun

In card-playing, the act of trumping when the player has no cards of the suit led. noun

In card-playing, to trump when holding none of the suit led.

Also, erroneously, rough.

Same as rough.

A state of roughness; ruggedness; hence, rude or riotous procedure or conduct. noun

A projecting band or frill, plaited or bristling, especially one worn around the neck. noun

Something resembling a ruff in form or position. noun

A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).

Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.

Senses relating to animals.

A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.

An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.

Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.

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The word "ruff" in example sentences

It was at dusk that the guard was changed at the Tower Gate, and a quarter of an hour before dusk Lord Arden's carriage stopped at the Tower Gate and an old nurse in ruff and cap and red cloak got out of it and lifted out two little gentlemen, one in black with a cloak trimmed with squirrel fur, which was Edred, and another, which was Richard, in grey velvet and marten's fur. ❋ Edith (1923)

A pampered pooch gets caught up in a "ruff" - and-tumble comedy adventure in BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA, available on DVD and Blu-ray on March 3, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Ent. When a diamond-clad, bootie-wearing Beverly Hills beauty gets lost on a Mexican vacation, she proves that good things really do come in small packages.

Regional Force/Provincial Force units, known as ruff-puffs — which were supposed to ferret out VC or NVA cadre activities on the village level. ❋ Marcinko, Richard (1992)

Woodruff, Woodroffe is too common to be referred to the plant woodruff, and the fact that the male and female of a species of sand-piper are called the ruff and reeve suggests that Woodruff may have some relation to wood-reeve. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)

This gown had long, tight, wrinkled sleeves, coming down over the hand, and finished with a ruffle of yellow lace; the neck, rounded and half-low, had a similar ruffle almost deep enough to be called a ruff; the waist, if it could be called a waist, was up under the arms: briefly, a costume of my grandmother's time. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

His shoulders bear epaulets of dark feathers, called the ruff, and his fan-like tail is banded and cross-barred. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)

If ever wimmen soared out in art and business, and genius, and philanthropy, and education, and religion, she does here; and from the floor to the ruff is the highest signs of her tenderness for the children, and all weak and helpless ones. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)

In Dulwich Gallery there is an interesting portrait by Rubens of an elderly lady in a great Spanish ruff, which is believed to be the portrait of his mother. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)

In regarding the falling-band as the germ of the ruff, the Water-Poet differs from those writers who, with greater appearance of reason, maintain that the ruff was the parent of the band. ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)

As a fashion it is not so extraordinary as the hoop-skirt, or as the neck ruff, which is again rising as a background to the lovely head. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Moreover, let your toilet be eminently simple, for you will find the time coming when to button a cuff or arrange a ruff will be a matter of absolute despair. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

(John Murray, £14.99), in which intelligencer John Shakespeare (brother of ... you know) who administers what can only be described as ruff justice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "ruff" economy seems to be getting to everyone, even Lucky! ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is our philosophical and economical responsibility to continue saving animals even in spite of a, well, "ruff" financial market. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Considering the "ruff" economic climate, you can travel the furry and frugal way! ❋ Unknown (2009)

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