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
I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
He was as bold and venturesome as the bravest ruffler that ever backed a dog at a baiting.
From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles
He showed me how to thread bobbin and needle, how to operate ruffler and tucker, and also how to turn off and on the electric current which operated the machinery.
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy
Quoth the ruffler, but in a lower voice: "I cannot fight with a boy; whether I slay him or am slain I am shamed."
From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May
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