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ruffler

/ ˈrʌflə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that ruffles
  2. an attachment on a sewing machine used for making frills


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To him your Bearnais is no better than a ruffler, a banditti captain, a guerilla chief.

The boy shrank visibly beneath the touch, and again an expression of pain crossed the poor ruffler's face.

And, as he slept, came swaggering by, the gay fop—the gallant of the city—the tavern-haunter—the ruffler—and the bully.

Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!

No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.

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ruffledruffle someone's feathers