tuff
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tuff¹
- /tʌf/ US, UK
- /tɐf/ Australia, New Zealand
- /tʊf/ Northern England
Sounds like tough, Tuff · Rhymes with -ʌf
Where it comes from
From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.
noun tuffs
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A light porous rock, now especially a rock composed of compacted volcanic ash varying in size from fine sand to coarse gravel.
This is what makes an ignimbrite; the general term for this kind of volcaniclastic rock is ‘tuff’.
Similar: tufa
tuff²
- /tʌf/ US, UK
- /tɐf/ Australia, New Zealand
- /tʊf/ Northern England
Sounds like tough, Tuff · Rhymes with -ʌf
Where it comes from
Eye dialect of tough.
adjective tuffer · more tuff · tuffest · most tuff
- Eye dialect spelling of tough Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...
- Impressive, amazing, awesome, cool. bro thinks he's tuff
Tuff³
proper noun Tuffs
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rhyolitic, dacite, rhyolite, palagonite, dacitic, breccia, pumiceous, tephra, sinter, vitric, ufc, joe, breccias, lapilli, tuffite, tufa
Translations
Talk about this word "tuff." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tuff. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. tuff. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tuff "tuff." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tuff.Cite this
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