tuff
See also: Tuff
English
Etymology 1
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʌf/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌf
- Homophone: tough
Noun
tuff (countable and uncountable, plural tuffs)
- (petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
- Synonym: tufa
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 9n:
- This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.
Derived terms
- tufflava
Translations
a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash
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Adjective
tuff (comparative tuffer, superlative tuffest)
- Eye dialect spelling of tough.
- 1980, Joy Wilt Berry, Ernie Hergenroeder, Tuff Stuff: A Children's Book about Trauma, Educational Products Division, Word, Inc., →ISBN:
- Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...
- 2000, Margaret Cavendish, “Preface to the Reader (1655)”, in Sylvia Bowerbank, Sara Mendelson, editor, Paper Bodies, →ISBN, page 139:
- … yet never to make us so strong as the strongest of Men, whose Sinnews are tuffer, and Bones stronger, and Joints closer, and Flesh firmer, than ours are …
- 2003, Ronald Carter, The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing (Language Arts), Routledge, →ISBN, page 96:
- It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'.
- 2006, Paige Hemmis, The Tuff Chix Guide to Easy Home Improvement, Penguin, →ISBN, page 36:
- TUFF METER
- 2010 January 20, Robert J. Elisberg, “CES 2020 -- Ohm on the Range”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 2012-09-14:
- Its Tuff-n-Tiny USB flash drive is about the size of a thumbnail. … The company insists that the "tuff" part of the name is well-earned for being waterproof, dustproof and you can drive a car over it.
- 2011, Kristian Pope, Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling Field Guide: Legend and Lore, Krause Publications, →ISBN:
- Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling
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Further reading
- tuff on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, tuff
Swedish
Etymology
From English tough.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɵf/
Adjective
tuff (comparative tuffare, superlative tuffast)
- (slang) cool
- (slang) tough
Declension
Inflection of tuff | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | tuff | tuffare | tuffast |
Neuter singular | tufft | tuffare | tuffast |
Plural | tuffa | tuffare | tuffast |
Masculine plural3 | tuffe | tuffare | tuffast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | tuffe | tuffare | tuffaste |
All | tuffa | tuffare | tuffaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Derived terms
- tuffing