"tuff" meaning in English

See tuff in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: tuffer [comparative], tuffest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} tuff (comparative tuffer, superlative tuffest)
  1. Eye dialect spelling of tough. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: tough
    Sense id: en-tuff-en-adj-BJlAWQ9L Categories (other): English eye dialect
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /tʌf/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tuff.wav Forms: tuffs [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌf Etymology: From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|tuffe}} French tuffe, {{der|en|it|tufo}} Italian tufo, {{der|en|la|tōfus}} Latin tōfus, {{doublet|en|tufa}} Doublet of tufa Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tuff (countable and uncountable, plural tuffs)
  1. (petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Rocks Synonyms: tufa Derived forms: tufflava Translations (a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash): πῶρος (pôros) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), տուֆ (tuf) (Armenian), toba (Basque), туф (tuf) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tuf [masculine] (Catalan), 凝灰岩 (nínghuīyán) (Chinese Mandarin), tuf [masculine] (Czech), tufsteen (Dutch), tuffi (Finnish), tuf volcanique [masculine] (French), tuf [masculine] (French), tufo [masculine] (Galician), Tuff [masculine] (German), Tuffstein [masculine] (German), tufa (Hungarian), móberg [neuter] (Icelandic), tuf [masculine] (Irish), tufo [masculine] (Italian), 凝灰岩 (gyōkaigan) (alt: ぎょうかいがん) (Japanese), ꦮꦠꦸꦥꦸꦠꦶꦃ (watu putih) (Javanese), 응회암 (eunghoeam) (alt: 凝灰岩) (Korean), dleesh (rhyolitic tuff) (Navajo), tuf wulkaniczny [masculine] (Polish), tofo [masculine] (Portuguese), вулкани́ческий туф (vulkaníčeskij tuf) (Russian), sedra [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), toba [feminine] (Spanish), tufo [masculine] (Spanish), tuff (Swedish), tüf (Turkish), вулканічний туф (vulkaničnyj tuf) [masculine] (Ukrainian), đá túp (Vietnamese), twff [masculine] (Welsh)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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        "2": "tufa"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of tufa",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tuffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Rocks"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 9n:",
          "text": "This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "petrology",
          "petrology"
        ],
        [
          "porous",
          "porous"
        ],
        [
          "volcanic",
          "volcanic"
        ],
        [
          "gravel",
          "gravel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(petrology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tufa"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "petrology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tʌf/"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌf"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "tough"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tuf",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "տուֆ"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "toba"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tuf",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "туф"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nínghuīyán",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "凝灰岩"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "tufsteen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "tuffi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf volcanique"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tuff"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tuffstein"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "pôros",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "πῶρος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "tufa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "móberg"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tufo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぎょうかいがん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gyōkaigan",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "凝灰岩"
    },
    {
      "code": "jv",
      "lang": "Javanese",
      "roman": "watu putih",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "ꦮꦠꦸꦥꦸꦠꦶꦃ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "凝灰岩",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eunghoeam",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "응회암"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "dleesh (rhyolitic tuff)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuf wulkaniczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tofo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vulkaníčeskij tuf",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "вулкани́ческий туф"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sedra"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "toba"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tufo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "tuff"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "tüf"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vulkaničnyj tuf",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вулканічний туф"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "word": "đá túp"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "twff"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tuff"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tuffer",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tuffest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "tough"
        }
      ],
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        "English eye dialect",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Joy Wilt Berry, Ernie Hergenroeder, Tuff Stuff: A Children's Book about Trauma, Educational Products Division, Word, Inc., →ISBN:",
          "text": "Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Margaret Cavendish, “Preface to the Reader (1655)”, in Sylvia Bowerbank, Sara Mendelson, editors, Paper Bodies, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "… 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 …",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ronald Carter, The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing (Language Arts), Routledge, →ISBN, page 96:",
          "text": "It was rave reviewed in the Caribbean Times as 'the ruffest, tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Paige Hemmis, The Tuff Chix Guide to Easy Home Improvement, Penguin, →ISBN, page 36:",
          "text": "TUFF METER",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 January 20, Robert J. Elisberg, “CES 2020 -- Ohm on the Range”, in Huffington Post, retrieved 2012-09-14:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kristian Pope, Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling Field Guide: Legend and Lore, Krause Publications, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eye dialect spelling of tough."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tough",
          "tough#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tuff"
}

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