ruffin

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English

Etymology

See ruffian.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌfɪn/

Adjective

ruffin (comparative more ruffin, superlative most ruffin)

(obsolete) disordered
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:
  His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.

References

“ruffin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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