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bruff

bruff is the alternative form of brough.

Meaning of brough

Noun

brough (plural broughs)

  1. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
    • […] about the moon , called a brough, stormy weather is looked for within twenty-four hours; hence it is said, "a far off brough and a near hand storm." If small floating white clouds appear, which are called cat hair, rain is[…]1832, Samuel MacSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus: From the Earliest Records to the Present Time ; Also a Statistical Survey of Said County, page 271

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bruff

Bruff

  1. A town in County Limerick, Ireland.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bruff

Bruff (plural Bruffs)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bruff

Noun
pluralbruffs
Proper noun
pluralBruffs

Origin of bruff

Variant of Brough.

Questions about bruff

What does bruff mean?
Bruff means a town in County Limerick, Ireland.
What is bruff the alternative form of?
Bruff is the alternative form of brough.
What part of speech is bruff?
Bruff is a proper noun.

Words near bruff in the dictionary

  1. Bruer
  2. Bruers
  3. bruery
  4. Brues' soldier flies
  5. Brues' soldier fly
  6. bruff
  7. bruffin
  8. bruffins
  9. bruffs
  10. Bruffy
  11. Bruford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bruff (page history and authors); Bruff (page history and authors); brough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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