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Quotation dates: 1835
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RUFFIE, n.2 Also ruffy; roughy. A cant or slang term for the Devil (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.; Ayr. 1968). Also Auld Roughy.Per. 1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. (1887) 50:
He [the Devil] was familiarly known at Parson Leys by the appellation of “Auld Roughy”.
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