ruffin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See ruffian.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
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[edit]
- “ruffin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.