Ruffle

Quick meaning: Ruffle is a noun meaning Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.

Meaning

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.

More Meanings

1. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
2. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
3. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
4. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
5. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
6. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
7. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

Example Sentences

to put the mind in a ruffle

Ruffle the end of the cuff.

The wind ruffled the papers.

She […]smoothed the ruffled seas.

Word Forms

• ruffles
• ruffling
• ruffled

Synonyms for ruffle

Depending on context, synonyms include frill, furbelow, perturb, trouble, unsettle, agitate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frill, furbelow, choker, pleat, ruff, fluff.

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