Noun: truff
| Singular | truff |
| Plural | truffs; truff |
Sample Sentences
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The town is famous for its earth-nuts or truffs, and for the beauty of its women, who are ſaid to excel thoſe of any other part of Italy. [1749, Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour, Or, a Journey Through the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France, third edition, London: […] J. Rivington and Sons, […], published 1778, page 202:]
Nouns inflected like truff
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French truffe (“truffle”). See: French Nouns '
truffe'.