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Ruff, n.10|rʌf|
[f. the name of W. Ruff, founder editor of Guide to the Turf or Pocket racing Companion (1842–53), a twice-yearly compendium of horse-racing information, subsequently published as Ruff's Guide to the Turf and since 1869 incorporating various other racing periodicals.]
A colloq. abbreviation of Ruff's Guide to the Turf.
1854Sporting Rev. Jan. 63 The racing world have in Ruff and the Book Calendar two very competent expounders of the ‘forms’ in which thorough-breds have ‘gone’ this season. 1902in Farmer & Henley Slang VI. i. 70/1. 1918 G. Frankau One of Them xxi. 159 Weep for a Shrunken Ruff, a tipless tout. |