ruse

Meanings

1. A turning or doubling back, especially of animals to get out of the way of hunting dogs.
2. An action intended to deceive; a trick.
3. Cunning, guile, trickery.

1. To deceive or trick using a ruse.
2. Of an animal: to turn or double back to elude hunters or their hunting dogs.

1. A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
2. A city in northeastern Bulgaria.
3. A municipality of Ruse Province, Bulgaria.
4. A province in Bulgaria.

1. A surname.
2. A suburb in the City of Campbelltown, near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after James 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”) (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”) or Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”). Doublet of recuse and rouse in the latter case. The verb is derived from the noun. Compare Middle French ruser (“to use cunning, to be crafty, beguile”); see further above.