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

Another time, bringing him roses on his shooes, he asked, If they would make him a ruffe-footed dove?

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

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The ruffe or pope (Acerina vulgaris) is a little fish common in the Thames and many other slow-flowing English rivers.

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Why then he is ruffe low, a ruffian, a bold adventurous errand to do any rough service for his Lady.

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

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