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单词 rig-ruff
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rig-ruffn.

Forms: 1600s rig-ruffe, 1800s rig-ruff.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare rig n.1 and perhaps dandruff n. or scruff n.1
English regional (northern). Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A thick patch of skin covering an ulcer or a lesion; a scab.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mal mort, a running scab, or thicke morphew, which couering all ouer the vlcers that bee vnder it, seemes wholly dead: Some Northerne people call it, the Rigruffe (in beasts).
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 685/1 Rig-ruff, a thick dead skin covering over a scab or ulcer. North.
1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. II. 802/2 Rig-ruff, the dead skin covering a scab or ulcer. North.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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