Defenition of the word ruffle

• Defenition of the word ruffle

  • a noisy fight
  • a high tight collar
  • twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
  • a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
  • stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  • trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
  • erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
  • pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
  • disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
  • mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
  • to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house."
  • trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody''s composure"
  • discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
  • to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  • pleat or gather into a ruffle
  • disturb the smoothness of
  • erect or fluff up
  • mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
  • twitch or flutter
  • trouble or vex
  • discompose
  • to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

Synonyms for the word ruffle

• • affray
  • annoy
  • choker
  • cock
  • cockle
  • dishevel
  • disrupt
  • distress
  • disturb
  • disturbance
  • flick
  • flounce
  • fluff
  • fray
  • frill
  • furbelow
  • make a mess of
  • mess up
  • mix
  • neck ruff
  • perturb
  • pleat
  • prance
  • riffle
  • ripple
  • ruff
  • ruffle up
  • rumple
  • sashay
  • shuffle
  • strut
  • swagger
  • tousle
  • undulate
  • unsettle
  • upset

Similar words in the ruffle

• • fluff up
  • plump up
  • ruffle
  • ruffled
  • ruffles
  • shake up

Hyponyms for the word ruffle

• • cut
  • fraise
  • gauffer
  • goffer
  • jabot
  • peplum
  • reshuffle
  • riffle

Hypernyms for the word ruffle

• • adornment
  • annoy
  • bother
  • chafe
  • collar
  • combat
  • devil
  • disarrange
  • displace
  • fight
  • fighting
  • flow
  • fluster
  • flux
  • fold
  • fold up
  • get at
  • get to
  • gravel
  • irritate
  • loosen
  • manipulate
  • move
  • nark
  • neckband
  • nettle
  • rag
  • rile
  • scrap
  • turn up
  • vex
  • walk

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