ruffle
1. a noisy fight
• Syn:
affray, disturbance, fray
• Hypernyms:
fight, fighting, combat, scrap
2. a high tight collar
• Syn:
choker, ruff, neck ruff
• Derivationally related forms:
choke (for: choker)
• Hypernyms:
collar, neckband
• Hyponyms:
fraise
3. a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
• Syn:
frill, flounce, furbelow
• Derivationally related forms:
frilly (for: frill)
• Hypernyms:
adornment
• Hyponyms:
goffer, gauffer, jabot, peplum
1. stir up (water) so as to form ripples (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
ripple, riffle, cockle, undulate
• Derivationally related forms:
riffle (for: riffle), ripple (for: ripple), rippling (for: ripple)
• Hypernyms:
flow, flux
• Entailment:
fold, fold up, turn up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
2. trouble or vex (Freq. 1)
- ruffle somebody's composure
• Hypernyms:
annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at,
irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex,
chafe, devil
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- The performance is likely to ruffle Sue
3. discompose
- This play is going to ruffle some people
- She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues
• Hypernyms:
fluster
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. disturb the smoothness of
- ruffle the surface of the water
• Syn:
ruffle up, rumple, mess up
• Hypernyms:
disarrange
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. erect or fluff up
- the bird ruffled its feathers
• Syn:
fluff
• See Also:
fluff up (for: fluff)
• Hypernyms:
loosen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- shuffle the cards
• Syn:
shuffle, mix
• Derivationally related forms:
mix (for: mix), shuffler (for: shuffle), shuffle (for: shuffle), shuffling (for: shuffle)
• Hypernyms:
manipulate
• Hyponyms:
reshuffle, riffle, cut
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
7. pleat or gather into a ruffle
- ruffle the curtain fabric
• Syn:
pleat
• Derivationally related forms:
pleat (for: pleat), pleating (for: pleat)
• Hypernyms:
fold, fold up, turn up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
8. twitch or flutter
- the paper flicked
• Syn:
flick, riffle
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
9. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
• Syn:
tittup, swagger, prance, strut, sashay, cock
• Derivationally related forms:
strut (for: strut), prancer (for: prance), prance (for: prance), swagger (for: swagger), swaggerer (for: swagger)
• Hypernyms:
walk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
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