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ruffless

ruffless adjective: without a ruff.

Adjective

ruffless (not comparable)

  1. Without a ruff.
    • […] the opinion, therefore, that those ruffless males are birds of a very late brood of the preceding season, is a reasonable conjecture.1831, George Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, page 446

Origin of ruffless

From ruff + -less.

Questions about ruffless

What does ruffless mean?
Ruffless means without a ruff.
What part of speech is ruffless?
Ruffless is an adjective.

Words near ruffless in the dictionary

  1. ruffles any feathers
  2. ruffles feathers
  3. ruffles some feathers
  4. ruffles someone's feathers
  5. ruffles up
  6. ruffless
  7. rufflier
  8. ruffliest
  9. rufflike
  10. ruffliness
  11. ruffling

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