ruffling
Speech parts
1. ruffling - Noun
2. ruffling - Verb
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of Ruffle
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Anyone picture Bill ruffling his kids hair and saying “Don’t worry about it kiddo, everybody screws up?”
Pete Davidson reportedly ruffling feathers at SNL due to preferential treatment: ‘The cast isn’t into him’
At my previous reporting position, I gained a reputation for ruffling a lot of feathers in my dogged pursuit of stories, as I am not afraid to challenge the narratives of governments where things are not lining up.
An albino peacock that caused a flap when it spent days rambling around a village centre next to a busy road has been ruffling feathers once again.
He paused at the bottom, the wind blowing through the brick foyer, ruffling his clothes.
In his play The Hen the indisputable father of Russian contemporary dramatic writing, Nikolai Koljada opens the doors to the wings of a small Siberian theatre where the arrival of a young actress causes the ruffling of many feathers.