Tuff
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tÊŒf/
- Rhymes: -ÊŒf
- Homophones: tough
Origin 1
From Old English tÅh, from Proto-Germanic *tanhuz
Full definition of tuff
Adjective
tuff
- older and simplified spelling of tough
- 1980 , Joy Wilt Berry, Ernie Hergenroeder , Tuff Stuff: A Children's Book about Trauma Chapter , Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...
- 2000 , Margaret Cavendish , Paper Bodies Chapter Preface to the Reader (1655) , … 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 Chapter , 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 Chapter , TUFF METER
- , 2010-01-20, Robert J. Elisberg, CES 2020 -- Ohm on the Range, 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 Chapter , Tuff Stuff Professional Wrestling
Pronunciation
- IPA: /tÊŒf/
- Homophones: tough
Origin 2
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tÅfus.
Noun
tuff
(countable and uncountable; plural tuffs)- (geology) A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
- 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’.