Definition of "tuf" [tuf]

• Amended spellings of tough, toughen. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "As there is no mention of any such miraculous inundation in the Mosaic writings, some have imagined this plague to have been either a pestilence, or the small-pox, or some other epidemical distemper. 5 For the word tufân, which is used in this place, and is generally rendered a deluge, may also signify any other universal destruction or mortality."
• "Why, then, would her son be spared of her conservative tuf love?"
• "The direct reflex of Latin tōfus is Italian masculine il tufo, alongside French le tuf."