ruff

ruff is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive/intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
2. noun. The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
3. transitive/intransitive verb. To trump.
4. noun. A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
5. noun. Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
6. noun. An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
7. noun. Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
8. noun. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
9. noun. A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
10. noun. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
11. noun. A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
12. noun. A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
13. transitive verb. To ruffle; to disorder.
14. transitive verb. To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
15. transitive verb. To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
16. noun. Alt. of Ruffe
17. noun. (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit

    Synonyms: trumping

18. noun. common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
19. noun. a high tight collar

    Synonyms: choker, ruffle

20. noun. an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

    Synonyms: frill

21. verb. play a trump

    Synonyms: trump

Synonyms

trumping, choker, ruffle, frill, trump

Common word forms

ruffs, ruffed, ruffer, ruffes, ruffly, ruffing, ruffable

Words from these letters

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