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
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle
There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
The ruffling is sometimes very nice and interesting and often gives the ruffler a good position in the glorious company of earlier rufflers——" "I shouldn't be satisfied with anything like that.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
Not a ruffler or a wench was in the streets after dark, nor any one save staid citizens upon their business, or the halberdiers of the watch.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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