ruse

Etymology

From Middle English rūse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; circuitous course taken by a hunter to pursue a game animal”), from Old French rëuse, ruse (“evasive movements of a pursued animal; trickery”)^[1] (modern French ruse (“trick, ruse; cunning, guile”)), from ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”), possibly from Latin rursus (“backward; on the contrary; again, in return”)^[2] or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ro͞oz, IPA^(key): /ɹuːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹuz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophones: roos, rues

Noun

ruse (countable and uncountable, plural ruses)

1. (countable) An action intended to deceive; a trick.
   • 2012 August 12, Anthony Wile, interviewer; Jeffrey Tucker, “Exclusive Interview: Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and ‘Beautiful Anarchy’”, in The Daily Bell‎, archived from the original on 8 August 2017:

     Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.

2. (uncountable) Cunning, guile, trickery.
   • 1873, G[eorge] W[illiam] Kitchin, “The Deeds of Charles V, ‘the Wise.’ a.d. 1360–1380.”, in A History of France down to the Year 1453 (Clarendon Press Series), Oxford: At the University Press, OCLC 854848200, pages 456–457:

     [H]e [Bertrand du Guesclin] had great natural cunning, that half-savage quality, was full of ruse and trick in war, he was contemptuous towards the high noblesse, but gentle to the poor, and generous to his friends.

References

Anagrams

• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, US'er, rues, suer, sure, ures, user

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruːsə/, [ˈʁoːsə]

Noun

ruse c (singular definite rusen, plural indefinite ruser)

1. fish-trap

Etymology

rusa (“Russian”) +‎ -e (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.se/

Adverb

ruse

1. in the Russian language
2. in the manner of a Russian person

Etymology

From ruser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁyz/

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Noun

ruse f (plural ruses)

1. (uncountable) cunning, guile
2. ruse, trick

Further reading

• “ruse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• rues, suer, sure, sûre, user

Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past rusa or ruset or ruste, past participle rusa or ruset or rust, present participle rusende)

1. to rev an engine
2. to rush

ruse (imperative rus, present tense ruser, passive ruses, simple past and past participle rusa or ruset, present participle rusende)

1. (reflexive) To use illegal drugs
2. to intoxicate

References

• “ruse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• rusa

Verb

ruse (imperative rus, present tense rusar or ruser, passive rusast, simple past rusa or ruste, past participle rusa or rust, present participle rusande)

1. to rev an engine
2. to rush

ruse (present tense rusar, past tense rusa, past participle rusa, passive infinitive rusast, present participle rusande, imperative rus/ruse)

1. (reflexive) To use illegal drugs
2. to intoxicate

References

• “ruse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Noun

ruse f (oblique plural ruses, nominative singular ruse, nominative plural ruses)

1. evasive movements of a pursued animal
2. (by extension) trickery
3. (by extension) dream; daydream; fantasy
4. (by extension) lie; untruth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruse/

Adjective

ruse f pl, n pl

1. feminine plural of rus
2. neuter plural of rus