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 Lynde, Francis
Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?
From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael
"It is my intent to lead this company myself," he loftily informed the ruffler.
From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael
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
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