Word Meaning

Meaning of "ruffled" and the crossword clue

- Flounced trim
- Neck frill on a garment
- Frilled
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
- To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
- To throw into disorder or confusion.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
- A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
- The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.
- of Ruffle