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say it: ruhf
ruff is a noun and verb meaning "an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal". It carries 5 recorded senses.
an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal
common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ruff come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.