ruffler
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that ruffles
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an attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills
Example Sentences
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
As bold and dominant as any ruffler of them all where men and perils were concerned, young Everard was timid, bashful and without assertiveness with women.
From The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini
But I never yet saw a bookworm that did not pale his fires before a soldier of fortune, nor a scholar that did not follow the courtier and the ruffler with eyes of envy.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
He thought next—and with increasing bitterness—of his own brave schemes, of his love for Valentina, and of how assured he had been that his affections were returned, before this ruffler came amongst them.
From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini
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