Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- 2transitive verb
To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
- 3transitive verb
To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
- 4transitive verb
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- 5transitive verb
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- 6transitive verb
To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
- 7transitive verb
To throw into disorder or confusion.
- 8transitive verb
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- 9intransitive verb
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- 10intransitive verb
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- 11intransitive verb
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- 12transitive/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.
- 13transitive/intransitive verb
A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
- 14transitive/intransitive verb
A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
- 15transitive/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.
- 16noun
a noisy fight
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- 17noun
a high tight collar
- 18noun
a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- 19verb
pleat or gather into a ruffle
"ruffle the curtain fabric"
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- 20verb
disturb the smoothness of
"ruffle the surface of the water"
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- 21verb
erect or fluff up
"the bird ruffled its feathers"
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- 22verb
mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
"shuffle the cards"
- 23verb
twitch or flutter
"the paper flicked"
- 24verb
trouble or vex
"ruffle somebody's composure"
- 25verb
discompose
"This play is going to ruffle some people"
"She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
- 26verb
to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
"He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
- 27verb
stir up (water) so as to form ripples
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