RUFF

Ruff

The Ruff is a medium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia. This highly gregarious sandpiper is migratory and sometimes forms huge flocks in its winter grounds, which include southern and western Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia. It is usually considered to be the only member of its genus, and the Broad-billed and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers are its closest relatives.

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ruff

Noun

  1. A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax; a rail.
    1. A male rail. (The female is a reeve).
  2. Any of several freshwater fish of the genus (also ), similar to perch; more commonly known as ruffe.
  3. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
  4. Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
  5. An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
  6. Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
  7. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
  8. A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
  9. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. (a fish)

Verb

  1. To ruffle; to disorder.
  2. To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  3. To hit (the prey) without fixing it.

Verb (etymology 2)

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

Interjection

  1. The bark of a dog; woof.


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