#ruffe

• Ruffe — A regional or popular name given to certain small fish species found in fresh or stagnant waters, often applied to the ruffe or the European bullhead, structurally characterized by a large, flattened head and a scaly body; in a rare isolated archaic sense, it can also represent a diminutive for an old woman.
• Ruffe — A popular or regional name given to several species of small freshwater fish, especially the ruffe, the European bullhead, or small dace, structurally characterized by an elongated and sharp body; by extension, the term is used collectively to denote tiny fish or low-quality pond fry.
• The small fish — A local or archaic articulated form of the noun 'baboi'; it designates a specific specimen of small freshwater fish (ruffe or bullhead) or, collectively, the pond fry identified within a specific fishing context.