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ruffed

[ ruhft ]

adjective

  1. displaying or wearing a ruff.


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Other Words From

  • un·ruffed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ruffed1

First recorded in 1570–80; ruff 1 + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

I'm not going to stand here palavering all day, with my feathers up like a ruffed grouse.

The ruffed grouse sometimes buds in an orchard near the woods, and thus takes the farmer's apple crop a year in advance.

I have heard the hairbird, and the note of the kingbird; and the ruffed grouse frequently drums at night.

About Victoria there were found, he said, two species of grouse,—the ruffed grouse and the blue grouse.

Unseen amid his dun and gray environment, the ruffed grouse skulks unheard, till he bursts away in thunderous flight.

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