truff

A truffle.

Noun archaic, dialectal

  1. A truffle.
    • 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. - 1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands,...

Origin

Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”).

Forms

truffs

Noun Yorkshire

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

Forms

truffs

Noun Cornwall, England

  1. The sea trout (a fish of the species Salmo trutta morpha trutta, closely related to salmon).
    • 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...

Origin

Unknown.

Forms

truffs truff