ruffe

/ rʌf /

noun

1. a European freshwater teleost fish, Acerina cernua , having a single spiny dorsal fin: family Percidae (perches) Also calledpope

Word History and Origins

Origin of ruffe¹

C15: perhaps an alteration of rough (referring to its scales)

Example Sentences

John M. Ruffe Jr., a retired businessman, said he, like others, did not know how to proceed after the shooting.

From New York Times

“The first few weeks were terrible, because you couldn’t smile,” Mr. Ruffe said.

From New York Times

The female is called a Reeve without any ruffe about the neck, lesser then the other & hardly to bee got.

From Project Gutenberg

Crabbes, crauesses, picrel, perche, ruffe, gogion, lampreis out of grauelly riuers, smeltes, dace, barbell, gornerd, whityng, soles, flunders, plaice, millers thumbes, minues, wt such others, sodde in water & vinegre wt rosemary, time, sage, & hole maces, & serued hote.

From Project Gutenberg

This couplet may give a little sketch of the man we should now see before us: ‘His ruffe is set, his head set in his ruff; His reverend trunks become him well enough.’

From Project Gutenberg