ruff

Meaning

Noun

1. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
2. Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
3. Senses relating to animals.
4. Senses relating to animals.
5. Senses relating to animals.
6. A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
7. (obsolete) An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.
8. (obsolete) Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.

Verb

1. (transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
2. (transitive) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
3. (rare, transitive) To ruffle; to disorder.
4. (obsolete, transitive) Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To boast, to brag.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
2. (transitive) Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.

Verb

1. (often, transitive) To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
2. (intransitive, often) Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.

Intj

The bark of a dog; arf, woof.

Adj

Alternative spelling of rough.

Synonyms

reeve

collar

neckband

trump

ruffle

frill

trumping

neck ruff

Philomachus pugnax

choker

mane

jabot

maneuver

manoeuvre

plume

quirk

ruse

sandpiper

sleight

subterfuge

torque

trick

tucker

wile

woof

yap

yip

ruff reeve

neckpiece

Australian herring

Australian ruff

ree

tommy rough

arbor collar

cylinder jaw

ruffies

to trump

arf

fuffe

artifice

claptrap

contraption

contrivance

deception

device

expedient

fleece

fraise

fur

Translations

combattant varié

kemphaan

combatiente

Philomachus pugnax

Kampfläufer

combattente

fraise

🍓

Krause

chevalier combattant

combatente

cicirrus

gorgiera

Philomachus pugnax

batallaire

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹʌf/

Etymology

Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.