truff

noun — 3 senses

truff

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”).

1

Archaic, Dialectal A truffle.

The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: […] J. Rivington and Sons, […], published 1778, page 202:

truff

noun

Etymology Unknown.

1

Cornwall, England, Archaic, Dialectal The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).

One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.1885, The Duke of Beaufort [i.e., Henry Somerset], Mowbray Morris, Hunting, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 307:

truff

noun

1

Yorkshire A long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.

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