An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
Unpleasant odour.
A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
To produce low sounds which blend continuously
To express by humming.
To reek, smell bad.
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
The bark of a dog; arf, woof.
To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
To ruffle; to disorder.
Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).