ruff
- IPA[rʌf]
英式
- a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume;a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal
noun: ruff, plural noun: ruffs
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名詞
- 1. a projecting starched frill worn round the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean costume an Elizabethan ruff
- 2. a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round the neck of a bird or mammal a ruff of long pointed feathers my nape stirred like the ruff of a dog in a thunderstorm
- 3. a pigeon of a domestic breed with a ruff of feathers on its neck.
- 4. a North Eurasian wading bird, the male of which has a large variously coloured ruff and ear tufts in the breeding season, used in display.
- a sequence of play in bridge or whist in which partners alternately trump each other's leads.
- (in bridge or whist) play a cross-ruff: the two were cross-ruffing for some time he decided to cross-ruff spades in dummy and hearts in hand
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[rʌf]
英式
- (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different ... declarer ruffed and then led a heart
- an act of ruffing or opportunity to ruff: he gave his partner a spade ruff
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[rəf]
美式
- (in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump in a trick which was led in a different ... declarer ruffed and then led a heart
- an act of ruffing or opportunity to ruff: he gave his partner a spade ruff
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rəf]
美式
- a projecting starched frill worn around the neck, characteristic of Elizabethan and Jacobean ... an Elizabethan ruff
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rʌf]
英式
- an edible marine fish of Australian inshore waters that is related to the Australian salmon.
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[rəf]
美式
- an edible marine fish of Australian inshore waters that is related to the Australian salmon.
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rəf]
美式
- one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rʌf]
英式
- one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a single note preceded by ...
Oxford Dictionary