Ruff vs Crossruff - What's the difference?
ruff | crossruff |
A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax .
# A male of the species. (The female is a reeve).
a small freshwater fish; a pope.
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
(obsolete) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
* (rfdate) L'Estrange
(obsolete) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
* (rfdate) Latimer
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
(engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
To ruffle; to disorder.
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
(hawking) To hit (the prey) without fixing it.
(colloquial)
(bridge) A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
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As nouns the difference between ruff and crossruff
is that ruff is reputation while crossruff is (bridge) a play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand.As a verb crossruff is
to execute a crossruff.ruff
English
Etymology 1
A shortening of (ruffle)Noun
(en noun)- I reared this flower; / Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread.
- How many princes in the ruff of all their glory, have been taken down from the head of a conquering army to the wheel of the victor's chariot!
- to ruffle it out in a riotous ruff
Verb
(en verb)- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* overruff * underruffSee also
*Etymology 3
Adjective
(er)Etymology 4
Onomatopoeic. English onomatopoeiascrossruff
English
Noun
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