ruffmans

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

British usage; Obsolete; Uncountable

"Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you."
"Happen we seen there was a damber in the ruffmans, and since we'd no yen t' deck the chates, we'd ha' binged a wast but for the rhino we was promised."

From rough + -mans.

ruffemans (alternative)

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