truff
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”).[1]
Noun
truff (plural truffs)
- (archaic, dialectal) A truffle.
- 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: J. Rivington and Sons, , published 1778, page 202:
- The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.
Etymology 2
Unknown.[2]
Noun
truff (countable and uncountable, plural truffs or truff)
- (England, Cornwall, dialectal, archaic) The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
- 1885, The Duke of Beaufort [i.e., Henry Somerset], Mowbray Morris, Hunting, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 307:
- One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.
Etymology 3
Noun
truff (plural truffs)
References
- ^ “truff, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “truff, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
