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Substantiivi

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. (music, often military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
3. An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
4. Alternative spelling of ruffe: a small freshwater fish of the genus Gymnocephalus; specifically a Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua or Gymnocephalus cernuus) which has spiny fins; the pope.
5. Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
6. (obsolete) A game similar to whist and its predecessor.
7. A fish of species Arripis georgianus, found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia
8. (obsolete) A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.
9. Senses relating to animals.
10. Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
11. (ornithology) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
12. (zoology) A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
13. (engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
14. (obsolete) An exhibition of haughtiness or pride.
15. (obsolete) Tumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.

Adjektiivi

1. (colloquial or obsolete) Alternative spelling of rough.

Huudahdus

1. The bark of a dog; arf, woof.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
2. (transitive) To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
3. (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).
4. (intransitive) Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
5. (transitive) Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
6. (transitive, falconry) Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
7. (rare, transitive) To ruffle; to disorder.
8. (obsolete, transitive) Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To boast, to brag.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.