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• The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.From the entry drum
• Diana monkeys are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard.From the entry browband
• Ruffed lemurs (genus Varecia) are the largest and arguably most impressive members of the Lemuridae family.2014, Daniel Austin, Madagascar Wildlife, page 71. From the entry ruffed lemur
• West ruffs the third diamond and the defenders cash their two clubs for down one.2010, David Stevens, Wait-A-Minute Bridge, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry wait a minute
• If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.2009 February 16, Phillip Alder, “At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze”, in New York Times. From the entry sluff
• I winter, ruffed grouse sometimes roost at night on the ground under the insulating snow.2003 August 1, Dennis Walrod, Grouse Hunter's Guide: Solid Facts, Insights, and Observations on How to Hunt Ruffled Grouse, Stackpole…. From the entry spring
• I liked the pale milk-chocolaty ones with the dark iridescent rippling ruffs.1943, Vincent McHugh, “Wednesday: 18th February”, in I Am Thinking of My Darling: An Adventure Story, 3rd printing, New York, N.Y.: Simon…. From the entry milk-chocolaty
• Now the University shop ONLY offers ornate codpieces and ruffed shirts with intricate floor plans of the Minster printed on them.2023 February 27, Eddie Atkinson, “New University Merch!”, in The Lemon Press, number 55, University of York, page 6, column 1. From the entry longboi
• Faeders, male ruffs that mimic females in plumage and "sneak" copulations at leks, secrete monoesters like other males.2007, Jeroen Willem Hendrik Reneerkens, Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)…. From the entry faeder
• Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’.2006 June 22, Joop Jukema, “Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird”, in Biology Letters. From the entry faeder
• Ruffed lemurs inhabit the eastern rain forest from the Masoala Peninsula to just south of Ranomafana (see Figure 2).1999, Phyllis Dolhinow, Agustín Fuentes, The Nonhuman Primates, page 128. From the entry ruffed lemur
• A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764. From the entry blacktail
• He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale.1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, L.C. Page and Company. From the entry quilled
• I bagged this one on Michigan's upper peninsula. ruffed grouse to be more difficult to hit, but the chukar is the most difficult to get to.2003, Layne Simpson, Shotguns & Shotgunning, page 92. From the entry chukar
• The women wear neck-kerchieves spreading over their shoulders, and ruffs, but their aprons show that they are shop-keepers rather than gentry; their high-crowned felt hats are of the mid-Elizabethan fashion.1978, Joanna Bird, Hugh Chapman, John Clark, editors, Collectanea Londiniensia: Studies in London Archaeology and History Presented to…. From the entry neck-kerchief

Meaning of ruff

1. noun A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
2. noun Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
3. noun A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of species Calidris pugnax (syn. Philomachus pugnax), of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).

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How do you use ruff in a sentence?

Ruff is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.”

What is a short sentence with ruff?

“The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.”

What does ruff mean?

Ruff means a circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).