Ruffinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹʌfɪn/

形容詞

ruffin (comparative more ruffin, superlative most ruffin)

1. (obsolete) disordered
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 34:

     His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.

名詞

ruffin (plural ruffins)

1. (dialect) A ruffian.
   • 1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west (page 150)

     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.

参照

• “ruffin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.