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
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 Reed, Talbot Baines
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
No doubt since the accomplishment was mine it became in her eyes characteristic of a bully and a ruffler.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael
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 Earle, John
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