Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. · Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it. · To ruffle; to disorder. · Of a bird: to ruffle its feathers.
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s). · Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill. · A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of species Calidris pugnax (syn. Philomachus pugnax), 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 set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
Clipping of ruffle, or possibly from rough.
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