ref

Clippings

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛf/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛf
• Homophone: reph

ref (plural refs)

1. (informal) Clipping of referee.
2. Abbreviation of reference.
3. Abbreviation of refectory.
4. (Philippines, informal) Clipping of refrigerator.

   Please close the ref.

   Please close the refrigerator.

• work the refs

• ⇒ Tagalog: i-ref

ref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)

1. (informal, transitive, intransitive) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:

     On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.

• FER, RFE, erf, f***er, fer

ref

1. indefinite accusative singular of refur
2. indefinite dative singular of refur

ref

1. Alternative form of reif

ref

1. Alternative form of reven

From Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz.

ref n

1. stomach
2. womb
3. conception

• *mitref, *middilref (“midriff”)

• Middle Dutch: *rif
  • Dutch: rif

“ref”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

ref

1. Obsolete spelling of räv.

• referee

• fre