Word "RUFF" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit
Synonyms:
trumping

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
Synonyms:
frill

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
Synonyms:
philomachus pugnax

Crossword Clues for RUFF

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Neck frill The Times Sunday Concise 27 Jul 2025
Contrary mastiff urgently fitted with collar
Wading bird under the weather, so we hear
17th-century collar Puzzler Backwords 04 Jul 2025
Wading bird; frilly collar The Times Concise 02 Jul 2025
Trump starts to frustrate fans following game The Times Quick Cryptic 21 Jun 2025
Report jagged creature seen with winos (4)
Old World shore bird, Philomachus pugnax (4)
Frill doesn't sound at all elegant (4)
A bird's collar of long feathers (4)
Old World shore bird, Philomachus pugnax, of the sandpiper family (4)
Tudor collar (4)
Sandpiper like sandpaper, reportedly? The Telegraph Toughie 25 Mar 2025
Eurasian sandpiper - Australian fish (4)
Back comes the fellow with the fur collar (4)
Trump the frill (4)
Medium-sized wading bird with a small head whose female is called a reeve Mirror Quiz 05 Feb 2025
17th-century collar Puzzler Backwords 04 Feb 2025
Elizabethan collar Mirror Tea Time 10 Nov 2024
Coarse sounding neckwear (4)
Neck-frill (4) Puzzler Backwords 01 Nov 2024
To be beaten by an animal's collar of hair (4)
Hear a bark and see a collar (4)
Elaborate collar
Sandpiper was collared by an Elizabethan (4)
Stand up, the fellow with the fur collar (4)
Coarse-sounding feathers (8)
Uttered a coarse word meaning "collar" (4)
Elizabethan frilled collar The Times Specialist 05 Aug 2024
It encircled the neck of a thug, one hears (4)
A thug, we hear, was once collared by this! (4)
16th century elaborate collar piece (4)
Wading bird lacking finish, so we hear
Not, you say, the green collar (4)
Mention of bristly ring of feathers (4)
Old pleated collar
Large pleated collar (arch)
The collar is scratchy, you say (4)
Medium-sized wading bird with a small head whose female is called a reeve Mirror Quiz 13 Apr 2024
Starched and pleated frill worn around the neck in the Elizabethan and Jacobean era (4)
Starched neck frill
Hearing the bark, you see the collar (4)
Elizabethan collar Mirror Tea Time 06 Mar 2024
Said it's a coarse fish (4)
Decorative collar The Guardian Quick 09 Feb 2024
Frilly Elizabethan collar (4) Puzzler 22 Jan 2024
Coming back with a f-fur collar (4)
Elizabethan collar Mirror Tea Time 10 Jan 2024
Frilled collar The Times Concise 07 Jan 2024
Wading bird with a small head whose female is called a reeve Mirror Quiz 15 Dec 2023
Male sandpiper
Frilly Elizabethan collar The Times Concise 28 Sep 2023
Elizabethan collar Eugene Sheffer 18 May 2023
Very loudly going after game bird The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Nov 2022
Elizabethan collar Thomas Joseph 08 Jul 2022
Elizabethan frill The Guardian Quick 11 Nov 2021
Collar uneven, by the sound of it? The Telegraph Toughie 12 Oct 2021
Collar estimated, by the sound of it The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Oct 2021
Elizabethan collar Jonesin 29 Dec 2020
Frill; fish The Times Concise 10 Feb 2020
Sandpiper in need of sandpapering, it's said?
Trump: Republican leader, upper- class, fine fellow
Bird annoyed, led astray The Telegraph Cryptic 26 Apr 2019
Extravagant collar The Times Concise 16 Dec 2018
Pooch of Dennis the Menace Universal 16 May 2018
Pooch of Dennis the Menace
A decorative frill around the neck, also a variety of sandpiper The Times Specialist Sunday 08 Oct 2017
Dennis the Menace's dog USA Today 22 Jul 2017
Trump's neckwear The Telegraph Toughie 15 Jun 2017
Decorative old-style collar The Washington Post 05 Jun 2017
Decorative old-style collar LA Times Daily 05 Jun 2017
Fish; neck frill The Times Concise 24 Apr 2017
Dennis the Menace's dog
Decorative old-style collar
Collar by the fairway, say
Elizabethan neckwear LA Times Daily 07 Aug 2016
Elizabethan neckwear
Type of collar The Telegraph Quick 11 Sep 2015
Frilly collar The Telegraph Quick 17 Jul 2015
Bird making harsh sound
Ornate collar not properly ironed, you'd say?
Trump, in bridge
DMX's original label ___ Ryders
Win by trumping, in bridge
Dennis the Menace's pooch
Dennis Mitchell's dog
Win by trumping, in bridge
Dennis' dog
"Dennis the Menace" pooch
Dog of Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace's dog
Dennis the Menace's dog
"Someone to Love You" R&Bers ___ Endz
Stiff, lacy collar
Elizabethan collar
Trump
Dennis the Menace's dog
Old-fashioned pleated neckwear
Old-fashioned pleated neckwear
Elizabethan collar
Dennis' dog
The Mitchell's dog
Dennis the Menace's dog
Dog of Dennis the Menace
Dennis's dog
Dennis the Menace's dog
Dennis' dog
Dennis the Menace's dog
Lace collar
Bridge term
Dennis the Menace's dog
Elizabethan neckpiece
Bridge ploy
Collar or sandpiper
European perch
Lace collar
Neck feathers
Bridge term
Gathered collar
Trump or bird
Pleated collar
Bird plumage
Trump a trick
Bridge word
Bridge term.
Trump, in a way.
Trump.
New look in Queen Bess' day.
Play a trump, in Bridge
High, frilled collar.
Bridge play.
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