Clues for the word "RUFF"
We've had 44 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 91 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on February 25, 2026.
Definition of ruff
- n. - A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
- n. - The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
- v. i. & t. - To trump.
- n. - A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
- n. - Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
- n. - An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
- n. - Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
- n. - A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
- n. - A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
- n. - A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
- n. - A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
- n. - A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
- v. t. - To ruffle; to disorder.
- v. t. - To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- v. t. - To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
- n. - Alt. of Ruffe
Referring Clues
- Dennis the Menace's dog
- Dog of Dennis the Menace
- Dennis' dog
- Dennis Mitchell's dog
- Old-fashioned pleated neckwear
- Dennis the Menace's pooch
- Trump
- Elizabethan collar
- Stiff, lacy collar
- Elizabethian collar
- "Dennis the Menace" pooch
- Win by trumping, in bridge
- Trump, in bridge
- Lace collar
- Lioness's lack
- Elizabethan neckwear
- Decorative old-style collar
- Old style collar decoration
- Collar or sandpiper
- Wading bird under the weather, so we hear
- "Someone to Love You" R&Bers ___ Endz
- DMX's original label ___ Ryders
- Win a trick by using a trump
- High tight collar
- Frilled collar
- Circular pleated collar - trump
- Frill lacking finish by the sound of it
- (At bridge) trump
- Bird's 2
- Starched neck frill
- Bird making rude noise
- Bird making harsh sound
- To trump is cruel by the sound of it
- Reportedly coarse fish
- Choirboy gets it in the neck
- Sandpiper's required, especially if you're listening to a Cockney
- One necked by an Elizabethan that's uncultured, we hear
- Pooch of Dennis the Menace
- Wading bird lacking finish, so we hear
- Frill
- Not, you say, the green collar
- Said to be a rough old collar
- Neck feathers
- Dennis the Menace's appropriately named dog
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - February 25, 2026
- Your Life Choices - February 23, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 24, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - November 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 28, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 05, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 27, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - May 11, 2024
- Your Life Choices - May 02, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 14, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 15, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 22, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 17, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 26, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - July 05, 2023
- Your Life Choices - June 20, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 18, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 16, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - January 25, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - January 17, 2023
- Your Life Choices - October 16, 2022
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