Obs. Forms: see TRUFF sb.1 [ad. OF. truffer, trufer to mock, deride, gibe at (13th c.); cf. med.L. trufare, truphare to mock, It. truffare to cozen, cheat (Florio); see TRUPHANE.]

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  1.  trans. To deceive, befool. Hence Truffling vbl. sb.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, i. 242. Sa cuth he deile with trufinge.

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1657.  C. Beck, Univ. Char., L viij b. To truffe, v. gird.

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  2.  intr. To trifle with.

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1485.  Caxton, Chas. Gt., II. II. x. 119. Ye haue seen how he truffed wyth me.

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  3.  trans. Sc. To obtain by deceit; to steal, pilfer.

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1720.  A. Pennecuik, Helicon (ed. 2), 66. I’ve truf’d you a Ladies Shirt from the Hedge.

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1721.  Ramsay, Lucky Spence, vi. Be sure to truff his pocket-book.

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  Hence † Truffer (cf. OF. trufeor, truffour (c. 1170 in Godef.)], one who ‘truffs’; so † Truffery [a. OF. truf(f)erie (c. 1230 in Godef.)], a mockery, trifle, thing of no importance.

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c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun, 2225. The first two causes pilat helde bot a truferye.

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1553.  Truffuris [see TRUFF sb.1 1, quot. 1513].

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1728.  Ramsay, Fables, xvii. 8. The hand of this young foolish truffer.

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