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Ruffle   /rˈəfəl/   Listen
Ruffle

noun
1.
A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.  Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow.
2.
A high tight collar.  Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruff.
3.
A noisy fight.  Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray.
verb
(past & past part. ruffled; pres. part. ruffling)
1.
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.  Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate.
2.
Trouble or vex.
3.
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others.  Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup.
4.
Discompose.  "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
5.
Twitch or flutter.  Synonyms: flick, riffle.
6.
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.  Synonyms: mix, shuffle.
7.
Erect or fluff up.  Synonym: fluff.
8.
Disturb the smoothness of.  Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple.
9.
Pleat or gather into a ruffle.  Synonym: pleat.



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"Ruffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... such a dear little innocent baby. Of course, I can quite understand. And does she suppose I'll ruffle her pretty little feathers? No, not I. I'd rather invent a new cradle song for you, ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade
... more. He did not wish to ruffle his friend's temper, to be sent to the devil and told that his advice was not wanted. A little tact was necessary. But Corley's brow was soon smooth again. His thoughts were ...
— Dubliners • James Joyce
... presence, yet to have left her would have been worse than death: How fondly did my eyes devour whatever they could gaze on without being perceived! the flowers on her gown, the point of her pretty foot, the interval of a round white arm that appeared between her glove and ruffle, the least part of her neck, each object increased the force of all the rest, and added to the infatuation. Gazing thus on what was to be seen, and even more than was to be seen, my sight became confused, my chest seemed contracted, respiration was every moment more painful. I had the utmost difficulty ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... the favourite of the gods—shall the guest of Hypatia—earn his breakfast, while I have an obol to share with him? Base thought! Youth! I have wronged you. Unphilosophically I allowed, yesterday morning, envy to ruffle the ocean of my intellect. We are now friends and brothers, in hatred to ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various


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