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

Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.

Senses relating to animals.

A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.

To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.

Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.

To ruffle; to disorder.

Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.

Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.

A bottom-dwelling carnivorous fish of the family Sparidae found in temperate and tropical waters; a porgy or sea bream.

Gymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.

Other species in the same genus.

An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.

A game similar to whist and its predecessor.

To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).

Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.

To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.

Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.

The bark of a dog; arf, woof.

Not smooth; uneven.

Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.

Example: a rough estimate; a rough sketch of a building; a rough plan

Turbulent.

Example: rough sea

Difficult; trying.

Example: Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.