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truff

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Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”).[1]

    Noun

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    truff (plural truffs)

    1. (archaic, dialectal) A truffle.
      • 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: […] J. Rivington and Sons,  […], published 1778, page 202:
        The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy.

    Etymology 2

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      Unknown.[2]

      Noun

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      truff (countable and uncountable, plural truffs or truff)

      1. (England, Cornwall, dialectal, archaic) The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
        • 1885, The Duke of Beaufort [i.e., Henry Somerset], Mowbray Morris, Hunting, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 307:
          One of these pools is designated par excellence the otter pool, for as surely as the truff appear, so surely do the strong hovers hold an otter, nay, sometimes a brace or more, in attendance on the prey so bountifully supplied to them.

      Etymology 3

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      Noun

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      truff (plural truffs)

      1. (Yorkshire) A long stone that goes through the full thickness of a stone wall.

      References

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      1. ^ “truff, n.1”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
      2. ^ “truff, n.2”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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