ruffler

British  

/ ˈrʌflə /

noun

1. a person or thing that ruffles

2. an attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills

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Example Sentences

"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Sabatini, Rafael

I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

But whose son he is I may not say, for Heaven denies having borne this ruffler, and so Earth and so Sea.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)

As for Falconnet, he was even then a ruffler and a bully, though he was not of the army.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis