tuff
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a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
Origin of tuff
2- Also called volcanic tuff.
Other words from tuff
- tuff·a·ceous [tuh-fey-shuhs], /tʌˈfeɪ ʃəs/, adjective
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How to use tuff in a sentence
I’d already spent the week in and out of the hospital, and I was freaking out because tuffs of hair suddenly started to fall out of my head.
All of them, tuff and Kellie and Clyde and Elsie, like to take this wherever they go: He died doing what he wanted to do.
“This is all we live for,” tuff Hedeman was saying on the Astrodome floor, far removed from Willie and his friends.
tuff and Tracie and Kellie lost count of the hours they spent waiting on Lane after the rodeos.
Antoinette tuff, who tried to kill herself nine months earlier, talked him out of it.
tuff cared for Derrick and his older sister, LaVita, while working two or three jobs at a time.
Tha are verry tuff ov life, and will outlive an injun rubber shoe, and don't seem tew gro old enny faster than a paving stone duz.
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings | Henry Wheeler ShawThe phenomena presented by the necks of intrusive rock do not differ from those characteristic of agglomerate or tuff necks.
Geology | James Geikietuff's waistcoat was yellow, and every color known to the spectroscope was employed to make up tuff's copious trousers.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York | Lemuel Ely QuiggThe people that are getting it up—er, well, I'm afraid they're not very friendly to me, tuff.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York | Lemuel Ely QuiggLarge areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.
British Dictionary definitions for tuff
/ (tʌf) /
a rock formed by the fusing together on the ground of small rock fragments (less than 2 mm across) ejected from a volcano
Origin of tuff
1Derived forms of tuff
- tuffaceous (tʌˈfeɪʃəs), adjective
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Scientific definitions for tuff
[ tŭf ]
A rock made up of particles of volcanic ash, varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
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