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Thesaurus > Related Words: ruffle |
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Words related to ruffle |
Related / Similar Words:
affray, disturbance, fray, choker, ruff, neck ruff, frill, flounce, furbelow, pleat, ruffle up, rumple, mess up, fluff, shuffle, mix, flick, riffle, swagger, prance, strut, sashay, cock, ripple, cockle, undulate
Definition: a noisy fight;a high tight collar;a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim;pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric";disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water";erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers";mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards";twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked";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";stir up (water) so as to form ripples;
See Also: fluff up, plump up, shake up
Hyponyms: fraise, goffer, gauffer, jabot, peplum, reshuffle, riffle, cut
Entailments: fold, fold up, turn up
Derivational Morphology:
choke, gag, fret, pleat, plait, plication, pleating, frill, flounce, furbelow, mix, mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, mixing, shuffler, shuffle, shuffling, make, strut, prance, swagger, prancer, swaggerer, ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet
Anagrams:
ferule, fuller, Fuller, refuel, rueful
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