different between fuff vs tuff
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)
- (dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Noun
fuff (plural fuffs)
- (dialect) A puff.
- (dialect) The spitting of a cat.
- (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)
- (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)
- 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)
- (slang) cool
- (slang) tough
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