tuff

adj

Etymology: Eye dialect of tough.

1. Eye dialect spelling of tough.

   “Tuff Stuff teaches that while life may go smoothly most of the time, ...”

   “… yet never to make us so strong as the strongest of Men, whose Sinnews are tuffer, and Bones stronger, and Joints closer, and Flesh firmer, than ours are …”

2. Impressive, amazing, awesome, cool.

   “bro thinks he's tuff”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-der. Proto-Italic *tūβosder. Oscanbor.? Latin tōfusder. Italian tufobor. French tufbor. English tuff From French tuffe, tuf, from Italian tufo, from Latin tōfus. Doublet of tufa.

1. 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’.”