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Meanings of Ruffed:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit.

Usage examples:

Declarer ruffed and then led a heart

Meanings of Ruffer:

noun

A person who ruffs at cards.

Meanings of Ruffes:

noun

A european freshwater fish of the perch family, with a greenish-brown back and yellow sides and underparts.

Usage examples:

The 40-mile stretch of the river ure includes important game fisheries with trout, grayling and eve…

Meanings of Ruffian:

noun

A violent person, especially one involved in crime.

Meanings of Ruffianish:

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a ruffian or ruffians; ruffianly.

Meanings of Ruffianize:

verb

To make ruffianly in character.

Meanings of Ruffianlike:

adjective

Characteristic of or appropriate to a ruffian; resembling, or having the qualities or manners of, a ruffian.

Meanings of Ruffiano:

noun

Chiefly in italian contexts: = "ruffian".

Meanings of Ruffians:

noun

A violent person, especially one involved in crime.

Meanings of Ruffing:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit.

Usage examples:

Declarer ruffed and then led a heart

noun

A projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of elizabethan and jacobean costume.

Usage examples:

An elizabethan ruff

Meanings of Ruffle:

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

noun

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill on a garment or other piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

The garment is often trimmed with lace, ruffles, bows and ribbons, optionally with spaghetti straps.

Meanings of Ruffled:

adjective

(of a person's hair) disarranged.

Usage examples:

He ran a hand through his ruffled hair

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

Meanings of Ruffleless:

adjective

Without any ruffles.

Meanings of Rufflement:

noun

The state or condition of being ruffled.

Meanings of Ruffler:

noun

Especially in the 16th and 17th centuries: a member of a class of vagabonds and rogues said to operate in the guise of maimed soldiers and sailors; a vagabond, a beggar.

Meanings of Rufflers:

noun

Especially in the 16th and 17th centuries: a member of a class of vagabonds and rogues said to operate in the guise of maimed soldiers and sailors; a vagabond, a beggar.

Meanings of Ruffles:

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

noun

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill on a garment or other piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

The garment is often trimmed with lace, ruffles, bows and ribbons, optionally with spaghetti straps.

Meanings of Ruffling:

verb

Disorder or disarrange (someone's hair), typically by running one's hands through it.

Usage examples:

The father laughs and jovially ruffles his son's hair

noun

A strip of lace or other material, gathered along one edge to make an ornamental frill on a garment or other piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

The garment is often trimmed with lace, ruffles, bows and ribbons, optionally with spaghetti straps.

Meanings of Ruffly:

adjective

Characterized by ruffles.

Meanings of Ruffs:

noun

A projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of elizabethan and jacobean costume.

Usage examples:

An elizabethan ruff

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different suit.

Usage examples:

Declarer ruffed and then led a heart

Meanings of Rufigallic:

adjective

"rufigallic acid" noun a weakly acidic red crystalline substance obtained by heating gallic acid with acids.

Meanings of Rufous:

adjective

Reddish brown in colour.

Usage examples:

Handsome rufous plumage

noun

A reddish-brown colour.

Usage examples:

Pale southern races of peregrine have some rufous on nape

Meanings of Rufus:

noun

(a nickname for) a red-haired person, especially a man.

Meanings of Rug:

noun

A floor covering of thick woven material or animal skin, typically not extending over the entire floor.

Usage examples:

An oriental rug

Meanings of Ruga:

noun

A fold, a ridge, a wrinkle. usually in plural.