ruffin

R1U1F4F4I1N1
/ˈɹʌfɪn/

adjective

disordered

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Meanings

ruffin1

adjectiveruffin (comparative more ruffin, superlative most ruffin)

comparative more ruffin · superlative most ruffin

  1. obsoletedisordered

    His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34
nounruffin (plural ruffins)

plural ruffins

  1. dialectalA ruffian.

    So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.

    1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west, page 150

Ruffin2

proper nounRuffin (plural Ruffins)

plural Ruffins

  1. A surname.

Origin

See ruffian.

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APA

ruffin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruffin

MLA

“ruffin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruffin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ruffin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ruffin.

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