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
But I never yet saw a bookworm that did not pale his fires before a soldier of fortune, nor a scholar that did not follow the courtier and the ruffler with eyes of envy.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
Singer was also the first to invent the "ruffler," a machine for ruffling or gathering cloth, and a device which laid an embroidering thread upon the surface of the cloth under the needle thread.
From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry
The ruffler paused a moment, as if awaiting a reply or a word of encouragement.
From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael
Aroint thee," he said to Lochinvar, "for a young ruffler and spit-fire.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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