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Ruffled   /rˈəfəld/   Listen
Ruffled

adjective
1.
Shaken into waves or undulations as by wind.  Synonym: rippled.  "With ruffled flags flying"
2.
Having decorative ruffles or frills.  Synonyms: frilled, frilly.


Ruffle

verb
(past & past part. ruffled; pres. part. ruffling)
1.
Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.  Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate.
2.
Trouble or vex.
3.
To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others.  Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup.
4.
Discompose.  "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
5.
Twitch or flutter.  Synonyms: flick, riffle.
6.
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement.  Synonyms: mix, shuffle.
7.
Erect or fluff up.  Synonym: fluff.
8.
Disturb the smoothness of.  Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple.
9.
Pleat or gather into a ruffle.  Synonym: pleat.



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"Ruffled" Quotes from Famous Books



... is not worth my while to write, nor anybody else's to read (should anybody ever read these memoranda), the details of racing and all that thereunto appertains, and though several disagreeable occurrences have ruffled the stream of my life, I have no pleasure in recording these; for if their consequences pass away, and I can forget them, it is better not at any future time to awaken 'the scorpion sting of griefs subdued.' Of public ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III • Charles C. F. Greville
... come from this habit of exaggerated speech? False interpreters of our own impressions, we can not but warp the minds of our fellow-men as well as our own. Between people who exaggerate, good understanding ceases. Ruffled tempers, violent and useless disputes, hasty judgments devoid of all moderation, the utmost extravagance in education and social life—these things are the ...
— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner
... until half past nine, posed for him gratis, as he afterwards told his mother. Such behavior before the aristocracy of Issoudun did not tend to change the opinion of the little town concerning him: every one went home ruffled by his sarcastic glances, uneasy under his smiles, and even frightened at his face, which seemed sinister to a class of people unable to ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... answer her. He remembered that it was time to keep an appointment with Berenice, and he smiled with the air of one too happy to be ruffled. ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates
... down to the fascinating task of adjusting the feather tracts, nicely manipulating the plumage, in places feather by feather, until characteristic markings of the species are brought out in their normal position as though the bird had just ruffled and then allowed the feathers to settle back softly. Jewelers' tweezers are the finest thing to be ...
— Taxidermy • Leon Luther Pray


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