ruffin

adj, noun — 2 senses

ruffin

adj

/ˈɹʌfɪn/

Etymology See ruffian.

1

Obsolete disordered

His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:

ruffin

noun

Etymology See ruffian.

1

Dialectal A ruffian.

So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west, page 150:

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