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RUFF
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Ruffin.
Boy/Male
English
From the red ford.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rolfe.German : from Ruffo, a short form of a personal name formed with hrÅd ‘renown’, ‘victory’.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Ruf and Ruff.
Surname or Lastname
English (now chiefly East Anglia)
English (now chiefly East Anglia) : probably a topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of rough ground, from a hypothetical Old English word rÅ«(we)t or rÅ«het, derivatives of rÅ«h ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’. Compare Rauch. There are places called Ruffet(t) in Surrey and Sussex which are thought to have this origin.German : Swabian variant of Roth 1.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Rauth.Indian (northern states) : Hindu (Rajput, Jat, Maratha) and Sikh name meaning ‘prince’, from Sanskrit rÄjaputra (from rÄja ‘king’ + putra ‘son’). In India this is a variant of a name more commonly spelled Ravat or Raut. The Jats have a clan called Ravat.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from a Latin nickname meaning ‘red-haired’ (see Ruffo). This is found in medieval English documents as a translation of various surnames with the same sense. (As a personal name it was not adopted until the 19th century.)
Boy/Male
French
Red haired.
Boy/Male
French
Red haired.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : variant of Rufer.German : variant of Roffers.English : variant of Rover 1.
Surname or Lastname
English and French
English and French : from a personal name, Latin Rufinus, a derivative of Rufus (see Ruffo 1). This was popularized by various minor early saints, including a 3rd-century martyr of Soissons and a 4th-century Church Father.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from a derivative of Old French hurer ‘to bristle or ruffle’, ‘to stand on end’ (see Huron).Irish : this may be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaill ‘descendant of Earghall’, a variant of Ó Fearghail (see Farrell).
Surname or Lastname
German
German : nickname for a ruffian, earlier for a hairy person, from Middle High German rūch, rūhe, rouch ‘hairy’, ‘shaggy’, ‘rough’.English : from a medieval personal name, a variant of Ralph.Italian (Sicily) : from a local variant of the personal name Rao, an old form of Ra(o)ul, composed of the Germanic elements rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + wolf ‘wolf’. Compare Ralph.Indian : variant of Rao.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rolfe.German : variant spelling of Ruf.
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Girl/Female
Indian
Vishvam; Known to Many
Boy/Male
French
The red-haired one.
Boy/Male
Indian, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sikh
Very Good; Poem; Part of Poem
Boy/Male
Biblical, Indian
A Son who Beholds
Boy/Male
Teutonic
Rules an estate.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Decent, Beautiful
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : nickname for a truthful person, or perhaps rather for someone who was in the habit of insisting repeatedly on the truth of the stories he told, from Middle English verite ‘truth(fulness)’ (Old French verité). The surname may sometimes have been acquired by someone who had acted the part of the personified quality of Truth in a mystery play or pageant.
Boy/Male
British, English
Cheerful
Surname or Lastname
English
English : evidently a habitational name from an unidentified or lost place.
Boy/Male
Czechoslovakian
King.
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v. t.
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
a.
brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous; as, ruffian rage.
a.
Ruffianly.
v. t. & i.
That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ruffle
n.
The act of ruffling.
v. t. & i.
A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
n.
One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian.
v. t.
To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
n.
Ruffians, collectively; a body of ruffians.
a.
Like a ruffian; bold in crimes; characteristic of a ruffian; violent; brutal.
n.
That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
v. t. & i.
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
v. t.
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
imp. & p. p.
of Ruffle
a.
Ruffianly.
v. i.
To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
a.
Having no ruffle.
v. t.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
a.
Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.