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
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 Francis Lynde
I suggested hemmer, tucker, quilter, braider, ruffler, and every known attachment I could think of, but each was produced with a flourish that negatived every proposition.
From Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 by Almira Stillwell Cole
The poor ruffler was fallen into meditation, and noted not that his nag did no more than amble.
From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini
Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
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