Difference between Ruff and Trumping

What is the difference between Ruff and Trumping?

Ruff as a verb is to play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led while Trumping as a verb is to play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

Ruff

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A male of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the female is a reeve. Any of several freshwater fish, of the genus Acerina, similar to perch. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted neckware in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it ruff and honours.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: The bark of a dog; woof.

Trumping

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

We hope you now know whether to use Ruff or Trumping in your sentence.

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