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Tuff

//tʌf// adj, name, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of tough. alt-of, ironic, often, pronunciation-spelling

    "Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ..."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel. countable, uncountable

    "This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’."

  2. 2
    hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash wordnet

Etymology

From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.

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