Ruff synonyms

rŭf

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frill
Any unnecessary ornament; superfluous thing added for show
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ruffe (related)
A small spiny freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernuus) of the family Percidae, native to Eurasia but introduced into and spreading in the Great Lakes.
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trumping
(card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
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philomachus (related)
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pugnax (related)
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choker
A narrow neckpiece of fur.
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neck ruff
a high tight collar
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spade (related)
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trump
To play a trump on (a trick, another card, etc.) when a trump was not led, often, specif., so as to take it thereby
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ruffle
A beating or rustling sound:
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philomachus-pugnax
A taxonomic species within the genus Philomachus — the ruff.
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Ruff Sentence Examples

  • RUFF, a bird so called from the very beautiful and remarkable frill of elongated feathers that, just before the breedingseason, grow thickly round the neck of the male, who is considerably larger than the female, known as the reeve.

  • The white ruff on the neck, and the similarly coloured feathers of the wing, do not appear until the completion of the first moulting.

  • The surplice is not used, the ministers conducting the ordinary services and preaching in a black gown, of the 16th-century type, with white bands or ruff.

  • By no one have the ruff's characteristics been more happily described than by J.

  • 2 It possesses only a single pair of posterior " emarginations on its sternum, in this respect resembling the Ruff.

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