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Word: ruff (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Interjection:

  • The bark of a dog; woof.

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Noun:

  • A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it ruff and honours.
  • A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted neckware in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
  • A male of the species ''Philomachus pugnax'', a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the female is a reeve.
  • Any of several freshwater fish, of the genus ''Acerina'', similar to perch.

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Verb:

  • To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led

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