Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ruff
Participle: ruffed
Gerund: ruffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ruff |
| you | ruff |
| he;she;it | ruffs |
| we | ruff |
| you | ruff |
| they | ruff |
Perfect
| I | have ruffed |
| you | have ruffed |
| he;she;it | has ruffed |
| we | have ruffed |
| you | have ruffed |
| they | have ruffed |
Past
| I | ruffed |
| you | ruffed |
| he;she;it | ruffed |
| we | ruffed |
| you | ruffed |
| they | ruffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruffed |
| you | had ruffed |
| he;she;it | had ruffed |
| we | had ruffed |
| you | had ruffed |
| they | had ruffed |
Future
| I | will ruff |
| you | will ruff |
| he;she;it | will ruff |
| we | will ruff |
| you | will ruff |
| they | will ruff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ruffed |
| you | will have ruffed |
| he;she;it | will have ruffed |
| we | will have ruffed |
| you | will have ruffed |
| they | will have ruffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ruff |
| you | ruff |
| he;she;it | ruff |
| we | ruff |
| you | ruff |
| they | ruff |
Perfect
| I | have ruffed |
| you | have ruffed |
| he;she;it | have ruffed |
| we | have ruffed |
| you | have ruffed |
| they | have ruffed |
Imperfect
| I | ruffed |
| you | ruffed |
| he;she;it | ruffed |
| we | ruffed |
| you | ruffed |
| they | ruffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had ruffed |
| you | had ruffed |
| he;she;it | had ruffed |
| we | had ruffed |
| you | had ruffed |
| they | had ruffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ruff |
| you | would ruff |
| he;she;it | would ruff |
| we | would ruff |
| you | would ruff |
| they | would ruff |
Perfect
| I | would have ruffed |
| you | would have ruffed |
| he;she;it | would have ruffed |
| we | would have ruffed |
| you | would have ruffed |
| they | would have ruffed |
Imperative
| you | ruff |
| we | Let's ruff |
| you | ruff |
Verbs conjugated like 'ruff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ruff'
buff,
cuff,
duff,
fuff,
gruff,
guff,
huff,
luff,
muff,
puff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.
Verbs referencing "ruff"
English
ruffle.
Sample Sentences
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The Ladies too were carp’d at, and their Dreſs, / He wants ’em all ruff’d up like good Queen Beſs! [1754 December 3, [David] Garrick, “Epilogue, […]”, in [John Brown], Barbarossa. A Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson and S[omerset] Draper […], published 1755, →OCLC, page [5]:]
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Instantly the keen-eyed hawk "stooped," or descended, with a rushing swoop, and struck one of the birds with her claws, but without killing it, which is called "rifling," or "ruffing" it. [1888, Good Words, volume 29, London: Alexander Strahan and Co., →OCLC, page 616:]
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Thenceforth the fether in her lofty creſt, / Ruffed of loue, gan lowly to auaile, / And her prowd portaunce, and her princely geſt, / VVith which ſhe earſt tryumphed, now did quaile: […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 418:]
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To return to the thatching: Straw is not so durable as one could wish; besides, in very high winds, it is liable, if not reeded, to be ruffed a good deal; and the reeding, which is almost like counting the straws one by one, is expensive. [1818 December 15, “To Morris Birkbeck, Esq. of English Prairie, Illinois Territory. Letter II.”, in Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, volume 34, number 21, London: Printed by W. Molineux, 5, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, for T[homas] Dolby, 34, Wardour-Street, Soho, published 13 February 1819, →OCLC, column 658:]
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I left my canoe below the fish lay, casting upward, so if I could hook a fish from shore I could lead him down without danger of ruffing the pool. [1896 May 9, Forest and Stream, volume 36, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 379, column 2:]
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"Scat," the crow said. I ignored him. He ruffed up his feathers, doubling his size. [2015, Tor Seidler, chapter 1, in Firstborn (A Caitlyn Dloughy Book), New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 7:]
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[…] Mr Gillies ruffed and screamed out so loud in approbation, that he fell from his chair, and brought an American gentleman down with him. [1831, “the Ettrick Shepherd” [pseudonym; James Hogg], “The Noctes Sang”, in Songs, by the Ettrick Shepherd. Now First Collected, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC:]