📖 WordNook

ruffle

noun
  1. a noisy fight
    disturbance
  2. a high tight collar
    ruffchokerneck ruff
  3. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
    flounce
verb
  1. pleat or gather into a ruffle
    “ruffle the curtain fabric”
    pleat
  2. disturb the smoothness of
    “ruffle the surface of the water”
    mess uprumpleruffle up
  3. erect or fluff up
    “the bird ruffled its feathers”
    fluff
  4. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
    shuffle
  5. twitch or flutter
    riffle
  6. trouble or vex
    “ruffle somebody's composure”
  7. discompose
    “This play is going to ruffle some people”
  8. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
    strut
  9. stir up (water) so as to form ripples
    riffle