ruffle

Speech parts

1. ruffle - Noun

2. ruffle - Verb

Meaning

To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.

To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

To throw into disorder or confusion.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

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.

A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frill furbelow riffle cockle pleat rumple shuffle cock ripple flick strut swagger flounce prance sashay
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Antonyms

calm pacify smoothen

Hypernyms

vex move flow rag nettle fighting

Hyponyms

riffle cut reshuffle peplum jabot goffer

Phrases with the word

ruffle someone's feathers beat a ruffle To ruffle ruffle collar ruffle a few feathers ruffle feathers

Derivatives

ruffled ruffling

Anagrams

luffer Fulfer

Examples

He struts around like a rooster in a hen house Source: Internet

the paper flicked Source: Internet

the bird ruffled its feathers Source: Internet

ruffle the surface of the water Source: Internet

shuffle the cards Source: Internet

ruffle the curtain fabric Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Ruffing ruffini corpuscle Ruffino ruffle a few feathers ruffle any feathers ruffle collar