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fuff

English

Etymology

Imitative. Compare puff.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?f

Verb

fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)

  1. (dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

fuff (plural fuffs)

  1. (dialect) A puff.
  2. (dialect) The spitting of a cat.
  3. (dialect) A burst of anger.

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tuff

English

Etymology 1

From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin t?fus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?f/
  • Homophone: tough

Noun

tuff (countable and uncountable, plural tuffs)

  1. (petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
    Synonym: tufa
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 9n:
Derived terms
  • tufflava
Translations

Etymology 2

Adjective

tuff (comparative tuffer, superlative tuffest)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of tough.

Further reading

  • tuff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, tuff

Swedish

Etymology

From English tough.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t?f/

Adjective

tuff (comparative tuffare, superlative tuffast)

  1. (slang) cool
  2. (slang) tough

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