rufflike - n.
1 a projecting starched frill worn round the neck esp. in the 16th c.
2 a projecting or conspicuously coloured ring of feathers or hair round a bird's or animal's neck.
3 a domestic pigeon like a jacobin.
4 (fem. reeve) a wading bird, Philomachus pugnax, of which the male has a ruff and ear-tufts in the breeding season.

rufflike adj. [perh. f. ruff = ROUGH]