ruffle
Nouns
- (n) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim flounce, furbelow, frill,
- (n) a high tight collar neck ruff, ruff, choker,
- (n) a noisy fight fray, affray, disturbance,
Verbs
- (v) stir up (water) so as to form ripples cockle, ripple, undulate, riffle,
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(v) trouble or vex
- ruffle somebody's composure
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(v) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
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(v) discompose
- This play is going to ruffle some people
- She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues
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(v) twitch or flutter
- the paper flicked
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(v) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- shuffle the cards
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(v) erect or fluff up
- the bird ruffled its feathers
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(v) disturb the smoothness of
- ruffle the surface of the water
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(v) pleat or gather into a ruffle
- ruffle the curtain fabric