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verb

Ruffle v. t. (past & past part. ruffled; pres. part. ruffling)

1.

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

2.

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

3.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion. "The fantastic revelries... that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile." "She smoothed the ruffled seas."

4.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers. "(the swan) ruffles her pure cold plume."

5.

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

6.

To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. "These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind." "But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart."

7.

To throw into disorder or confusion. "Where best He might the ruffled foe infest."

8.

To throw together in a disorderly manner. (R.) "I ruffled up falen leaves in heap."

To ruffle the feathers of, to exite the resentment of; to irritate.

Ruffle v. i.

1.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. (R.) "The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle."

2.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter. "On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind."

3.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger. "They would ruffle with jurors." "Gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery."

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Etymology of 'Ruffled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ruffled" Quotes from Famous Books

... folks had on plain homespun shirts and jeans pants. De jeans what deir pants was made out of was homespun too. Some of de 'omans wore homespun dresses, but most of 'em had a calico dress what was saved special for Sunday meetin' wear. 'Omans wore two or three petticoats all ruffled and starched 'til one or dem underskirts would stand by itself. Dey went barfoots wid deir shoes hung over deir shoulders, jus' lak de mens, and evvy 'oman pinned up her dress and evvy one of her petticoats ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Georgia Narratives, Part 3 • Works Projects Administration

... Mr. Hill; still preserving his composure, as it was his custom to do as long as he could, when he saw his wife was ruffled. ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... night came up, huge and holy, out of waste marshes to the eastwards and low lands and the sea; and the angels that watched over all men through the day closed their great eyes and slept, and the angels that watched over all men through the night awoke and ruffled their deep blue feathers and stood up and watched. But the plain became a thing of mystery filled with fears. So the two spies went down the deep ravine, and coming to the plain sped stealthily across it. Soon they came to ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

... beginning. He has but one resource, which is to pay no heed to criticism, but to try to satisfy his own highest standard and leave the rest to time and the public. Here is a little bit of doggerel, pinned, as you see, beside my bookcase, which may in a ruffled hour bring peace and guidance ...

— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle

... stertorous and purple, advanced to the railing. There he unbuttoned his collar and laid his neckcloth aside, then with his eye fixed on his antagonist he drew off his blue frock coat, and thrusting one hand into his ruffled shirt front, and raising the other to the dark canopy above him, he opened his vindictive lips. The action, the attitude, were Starbottle's. But the voice was not. For at that supreme moment, a bray—so profound, so appalling, so utterly soul-subduing, so ...

— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte

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