Meaning

noun a Berber living in northern Morocco

noun a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation

verb look through a book or other written material

originFrom Middle English *rif (found only in midrif), from Old English hrif (“the belly; womb”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz (“body; torso; belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”). Distant doublet of corpus, corpse, and corse.

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