ruffle

ruffle is a 6-letter English word with 27 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
2. transitive verb. To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
3. transitive verb. To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
4. transitive verb. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
5. transitive verb. To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
6. transitive verb. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
7. transitive verb. To throw into disorder or confusion.
8. transitive verb. To throw together in a disorderly manner.
9. intransitive verb. To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
10. intransitive verb. To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
11. intransitive verb. To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
12. transitive/intransitive verb. That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
13. transitive/intransitive verb. A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
14. transitive/intransitive verb. A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
15. transitive/intransitive verb. The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
16. noun. a noisy fight

    Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray

17. noun. a high tight collar

    Synonyms: choker, ruff

18. noun. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

    Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow

19. verb. pleat or gather into a ruffle

    "ruffle the curtain fabric"

    Synonyms: pleat

20. verb. disturb the smoothness of

    "ruffle the surface of the water"

    Synonyms: rumple

21. verb. erect or fluff up

    "the bird ruffled its feathers"

    Synonyms: fluff

22. verb. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

    "shuffle the cards"

    Synonyms: mix, shuffle

23. verb. twitch or flutter

    "the paper flicked"

    Synonyms: flick, riffle

24. verb. trouble or vex

    "ruffle somebody's composure"

25. verb. discompose

    "This play is going to ruffle some people"

    "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"

26. verb. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

    "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"

    Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup

27. verb. stir up (water) so as to form ripples

    Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate

Synonyms

affray, disturbance, fray, choker, ruff, flounce, frill, furbelow, pleat, rumple, fluff, mix, shuffle, flick, riffle, cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup, cockle, ripple, undulate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ruffle:

luffer

Common word forms

ruffled, ruffler, ruffles, ruffling, ruffleless, rufflement

Words from these letters

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