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RUFF

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
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Super Big 1 pts

RUFF is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

RUFFS-s 2 RUFFING-ing 5 RUFFED-ed 3

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RUFFE 2 RUFFES 3
noun
  1. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
  2. Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
  3. 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).
  4. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
  5. A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
  6. A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
  7. obsoleteAn exhibition of haughtiness or pride.
  8. obsoleteTumultuous or wanton conduct or procedure.
  9. alternativeAlternative spelling of ruffe: a small freshwater fish of the genus Gymnocephalus; specifically a Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua or Gymnocephalus cernuus) which has spiny fins; the pope.
  10. A fish of species Arripis georgianus, found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia
  11. obsoleteA bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.
  12. An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
  13. obsoleteA game similar to whist and its predecessor.
  14. oftenA low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
verb
  1. transitiveTo shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
  2. transitiveOf a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
  3. raretransitiveTo ruffle; to disorder.
  4. obsoletetransitiveOf a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
  5. obsoletetransitiveTo boast, to brag.
  6. intransitiveobsoleteTo speak in a loud and domineering manner; to bluster, to swagger.
  7. ambitransitiveTo play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
  8. transitiveEspecially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
  9. oftentransitiveTo beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
  10. intransitiveoftenOf a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
interjection
  1. oftenThe bark of a dog; arf, woof.
adjective
  1. alternativecolloquialobsoleteoftenAlternative spelling of rough.