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Definitioner
Substantiv
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.W
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
Verb
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
Exempel
- She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- to put the mind in a ruffle
- Ruffle the end of the cuff.
- The wind ruffled the papers.
- Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
- the fantastic revelries [...] that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- She smoothed the ruffled seas.
- But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle.
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
- They would ruffle with jurors.
- gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
- [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
- I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.
Böjningsformer
| Perfektparticip | ruffled |
| Imperfekt | ruffled |
| Presensparticip | ruffling |
| Plural | ruffles |
| Tredje person singular indicativ presens | ruffles |