tuff
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
/tʌf/
Definition of tuff
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
“This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
“This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.”
adj
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(alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Eye dialect spelling of tough.
“Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...”
“… 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 …”
“It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'.”
“TUFF METER”
“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.”
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(Internet)Impressive, amazing, awesome, cool.
“bro thinks he's tuff”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.
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