underruff

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verb

To ruff with a trump lower than the trump already played by one's opponent

OriginEnglish ruff ← Middle English under- ← Old English under- →
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Meanings

verbunderruff (third-person singular simple present underruffs, present participle underruffing, simple past and past participle underruffed)

present singular third person underruffs · participle present underruffing · participle past underruffed · past underruffed

  1. bridgeTo ruff with a trump lower than the trump already played by one's opponent

    And so, at trick five, when South ruffed a diamond with the board's queen of clubs, East, having a discard to make, found a gorgeous one— he underruffed with seven of trumps!

    1973, Fred L. Karpin, The Art of Card Reading at Bridge, →ISBN, page 149
noununderruff (plural underruffs)

plural underruffs

  1. An act of underruffing

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Englishruff
  13. Englishunderruff

From under- + ruff.

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Translations

French pisser, faire pipi
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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