ruffed

[ ruhft ]

adjective

1. displaying or wearing a ruff.

Other Words From

• un·ruffed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ruffed¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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