Yelp vs Ruff - What's the difference?
yelp | ruff |
An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail siren-sound.
To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
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)
As nouns the difference between yelp and ruff
is that yelp is an abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance while ruff is reputation.As a verb yelp
is to utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.yelp
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.
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)