different between tuff vs truffle

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

English

Etymology

The word in the Germanic languages (except Icelandic) is a loanword from French truffe (previously trufle) (whence Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), which originates from Old Occitan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??f.l?/
• Rhymes: -?f?l

Noun

truffle (plural truffles)

1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.

   Synonym: earthnut

2. (by analogy) Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• truffle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• fretful