Definitions for ruffed

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Spelling: [ruhft]

IPA: /rʌft/

Ruffed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in ruffed (deffru).

Definitions for ruffed

noun

1. a neckpiece or collar of lace, lawn, or the like, gathered or drawn into deep, full, regular folds, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. something resembling such a piece in form or position.
3. a collar, or set of lengthened or specially marked hairs or feathers, on the neck of an animal.
4. Ornithology. a species of European and Asian sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax, the male of which has a large erectile ruff of feathers during the breeding season. Compare reeve3 .
5. Alaska and Northern Canada. a fringe of fur around the edge of a parka hood or along the edges of a jacket.
6. an act or instance of trumping when one cannot follow suit.
7. an old game of cards, resembling whist.

adjective

1. displaying or wearing a ruff.

verb (used with object)

1. tease (def 3).

verb (used with or without object)

1. to trump when unable to follow suit.

Origin of ruffed

First recorded in 1570-80; ruff¹ + -ed²

Examples for ruffed

ruffed grouse strutted about, challenging the world at large.

Bob-white and ruffed grouse are the fife and drum corps of the woods.

I said at the first that the ruffed Grouse stay with us all the year.

Its food and habits are similar to those of the ruffed Grouse.

The ruffed Grouse can easily be detected by the drumming sound which it makes.

Now and then, ahead of her, she saw a ruffed grouse wandering in the trail.

There goes a ruffed grouse from the snow, scarce a rod ahead.

The ruffed grouse strutted and drummed in every wood, copse, and cobble.

He gave a low call at the foot of the stairs, which brought down a ladies'-maid with a ruffed cap perched on the back of her head.

They were not ruffed grouse, but a kindred kind, new to Rolf.