ruffle


ruffle - noun

  • a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
  • a high tight collar
  • a noisy fight

    • ruffle - verb

    • stir up (water) so as to form ripples
    • trouble or vex
    • to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
    • discompose
    • twitch or flutter
    • mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
    • erect or fluff up
    • disturb the smoothness of
    • pleat or gather into a ruffle

    ruffle - thesaurus

    affray   choker   cock   cockle   disturbance   flick   flounce   fluff   fray   frill   furbelow   mix   pleat   prance   riffle   ripple   ruff   rumple   sashay   shuffle   strut   swagger   tittup   undulate  


    View spelling list Words ending in fle and learn about the word ruffle in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 26. Word endings: -le, and exceptions e.g. al, el, ol.

    Scrabble score for ruffle

    r is 1 u is 1 f is 4 f is 4 l is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 12

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