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Boy/Male
French
Red haired.
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German
German : variant of Rufer.German : variant of Roffers.English : variant of Rover 1.
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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.
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n.
A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.
n.
The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).
n.
A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); -- called also pope, blacktail, and stone, / striped, perch.
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Alt. of Ruffe
imp. & p. p.
of Ruff
a.
Furnished with a ruff.
v. i.
To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
n.
The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides.
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An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
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Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
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Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.
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The ruffed grouse.
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Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).