ruffle

ruffle
v
1. gather, pucker, plait, shirr, full, rimple, crimp, crisp, smock, flounce.
2. ripple, roil, roughen, stir up, undulate; curl, crumple, crinkle, cockle, crease, fold, ruck; dimple, wimple, corrugate, Inf. scrunch up, Inf. squish together.
3. disarrange, disorder, derange, rumple, dishevel, entangle, jumble; run the fingers through, Inf. tousle, Inf. muss or muss up, Inf. mess or mess up; shuffle, riffle, mix up, intermix.
4. annoy, irritate, ruff, exasperate, raise one's dander, madden, get under one's skin, get in one's hair, get on one's nerves; disturb, agitate, upset, unsettle, rattle; disconcert, fluster, chagrin, embarrass, abash, discomfit, confuse, throw into confusion, perturb, stir; rile, disquiet, discompose, Inf. shake up; trouble, fret, pique, nettle, gall, chafe; torment, harass, plague, worry.
n
5. crimping, tucking, gathering, edging, trim, fillet, frill; jabot, ruche, ruching, flounce, ruff, wimple.
6. ripple, undulation, rimple, ruffling; flurry, bustle, stir, swirl, swirling, flutter.

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