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Ruffled   /rˈəfəld/   Listen
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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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"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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