'Ruffle' definitions:
Definition of 'ruffle'
From: WordNet
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verb
verb
Trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
verb
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock]
verb
Discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
verb
verb
verb
Erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers" [syn: ruffle, fluff]
verb
Disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up]
verb
Pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric" [syn: ruffle, pleat]
Definition of 'Ruffle'
From: GCIDE
- Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ruffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Ruffling.] [From Ruff a plaited collar, a drum beat, a tumult: cf. OD. ruyffelen to wrinkle.]
- 1. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. [1913 Webster]
- The fantastic revelries . . . that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- She smoothed the ruffled seas. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To erect in a ruff, as feathers. [1913 Webster]
- [the swan] ruffles her pure cold plume. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mil.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. [1913 Webster]
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To throw into disorder or confusion. [1913 Webster]
- Where best He might the ruffled foe infest. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To throw together in a disorderly manner. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- I ruffled up falen leaves in heap. --Chapman [1913 Webster]
- To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ruffle'
From: GCIDE
- Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, v. i. [Perhaps of different origin from ruffle to wrinkle; cf. OD. roffeln, roffen, to pander, LG. raffein, Dan. ruffer a pimp. Cf. Rufflan.]
- 1. To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter. [1913 Webster]
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger. [1913 Webster]
- They would ruffle with jurors. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ruffle'
From: GCIDE
- Ruffle \Ruf"fle\, n. [See Ruffle, v. t. & i.]
- 1. That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mil.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff. --H. L. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca. [1913 Webster]
- Ruffle of a boot, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ruffle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- ado,
- affect,
- aggravate,
- agitate,
- agitation,
- annoy,
- arouse,
- badger,
- bait,
- ball up,
- barrage,
- be at,
- beading,
- beat,
- beat a ruffle,
- beat a tattoo,
- beat the drum,
- beat time,
- beat up,
- beating,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- bedevil,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- beset,
- bewilder,
- bewilderment,
- binding,
- bludgeon,
- bluster,
- bordering,
- bordure,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bristle,
- brouhaha,
- browbeat,
- brown off,
- bug,
- bulldoze,
- bully,
- bullyrag,
- burn up,
- bustle,
- chafe,
- chaos,
- chivy,
- churn,
- churn up,
- cloud,
- clutter,
- commotion,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- convulse,
- corrugate,
- count,
- count the beats,
- cow,
- crease,
- creasing,
- crimp,
- crinkle,
- crisp,
- crumple,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- derange,
- devil,
- disarrange,
- disarray,
- discombobulate,
- discombobulation,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- dishevel,
- dislocate,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disorientation,
- disquiet,
- distemper,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- dog,
- dog-ear,
- double,
- double over,
- doubling,
- dragoon,
- drum,
- drum music,
- drumbeat,
- drumfire,
- drumming,
- duplicature,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- edging,
- effervescence,
- electrify,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- embitter,
- embroilment,
- enfold,
- entangle,
- erode,
- exasperate,
- excite,
- exercise,
- fan,
- fash,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fimbria,
- fimbriation,
- flare,
- flection,
- flexure,
- flounce,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flute,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fold,
- fold over,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- frill,
- frilling,
- fringe,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- furbelow,
- fuss,
- gall,
- galloon,
- gather,
- gathering,
- get,
- go pitapat,
- graze,
- gripe,
- harass,
- harry,
- haze,
- heckle,
- hector,
- hem,
- hex,
- hound,
- huff,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- incense,
- inflame,
- infold,
- interfold,
- intimidate,
- irk,
- irritate,
- jar,
- jolt,
- jumble,
- keep time,
- lap over,
- lapel,
- lappet,
- list,
- litter,
- maze,
- mess,
- mess up,
- miff,
- misarrange,
- mist,
- mix up,
- moider,
- molest,
- motif,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- muss,
- muss up,
- nag,
- needle,
- nettle,
- nudzh,
- paddle,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- paradiddle,
- patter,
- peeve,
- pell-mell,
- peplum,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- persecute,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- perturbation,
- pester,
- pick on,
- pique,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- plague,
- plait,
- plat,
- play drum,
- pleat,
- plica,
- plicate,
- plication,
- plicature,
- pluck the beard,
- ply,
- pother,
- pound,
- pounding,
- provoke,
- psych out,
- pucker,
- pulsate,
- pulsation,
- put out,
- quill,
- raise hell,
- rankle,
- rat-a-tat,
- rat-tat,
- rat-tat-tat,
- rataplan,
- rattattoo,
- rattle,
- ride,
- rile,
- ripple,
- rock,
- roil,
- roll,
- roughen,
- rub,
- rub-a-dub,
- ruche,
- ruching,
- ruff,
- rumple,
- scatter,
- selvage,
- set on edge,
- set up,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shock,
- shuffle,
- skirting,
- sound a tattoo,
- spatter,
- splatter,
- splutter,
- spook,
- sputter,
- staccato,
- stagger,
- stew,
- stir,
- stir the blood,
- stir up,
- strong-arm,
- sweat,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- swivet,
- tangle,
- tap,
- tat-tat,
- tattoo,
- tease,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- throw,
- throw into confusion,
- thrum,
- thump,
- thumping,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- tom-tom,
- torment,
- tousle,
- trimming,
- trouble,
- try the patience,
- tuck,
- tumult,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- turn over,
- tweak the nose,
- twill,
- unnerve,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- unstring,
- uproar,
- upset,
- valance,
- vex,
- voodoo,
- vortex,
- wavelet,
- wear,
- welt,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whirl,
- whisk,
- wind,
- winnow,
- work up,
- worry,
- wrinkle,
- yeastiness