ruffless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ruff +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

ruffless (not comparable)

  1. Without a ruff.
    • 1831, George Montagu, Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds, page 446:
      [] the opinion, therefore, that those ruffless males are birds of a very late brood of the preceding season, is a reasonable conjecture.