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▪ I. † ˈruffy1 Obs. Chiefly Sc.
Also 6 ruffie, roofye, pl. ruffeis.
[var. of Ruffin1, and of ruffin ruffian n.]
1. A devil or fiend. Cf. Ruffin1 1.
a1500Rowlis Cursing 133 Ruffy Tasker with his flaill Sall beit thame all fra top to taill. [See also ragman1 1.] 1528Lyndesay Dreme 285 Sum repentit neuer in thare lyue: Quhairfor, but reuth tha ruffeis did thame ryue. 1599Harsnet Discoverie 308 One of them saying his name was Roofye—‘Thou lyest,’ quoth M. Darrell, ‘that name is common to all spirits’.
b. One impersonating a fiend.
1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 350 Item, be the Kingis command, to Sanct Nicholais beschop, iij Franch crounis... Item, to the deblatis and ruffyis, vij s. 1507Ibid. IV. 87 To Sanct Nicholais..xxviij s. To his ruffyis, ix s.
2. A ruffian.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lx. 42 Bot quhow is he content, or nocht,..Wpone this ruffie to remord? 1570Sat. Poems Reform. xxi. 23 Thay Ruffyis, be thay neuer sa ryfe, Thay get na helpe of France. 1572Ibid. xxxii. 81 Thay reuthles Ruffeis but reuth with crueltie Did slay my husband.
▪ II. ˈruffy2 Sc. rare.
[Cf. ruff n.7 and roughy1.]
(See quots. 1808 and 1825.)
1793Stat. Acc. Scotl. IX. 328 When the goodman of the house made family worship, they lighted a ruffy, to enable him to read the psalm..before he prayed. 1808Jamieson, Ruffy, a wick clogged with tallow, instead of being dipped. 1825― Suppl., Ruffy,..the blaze or torch used in fishing by night with the Lister.
▪ III. ruffy
variant of roughy2. |