Ruffle

Definition: Ruffle

Ruffle

Noun

1. A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.

2. A high tight collar.

3. A noisy fight.

Verb

1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples.

2. Trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure".

3. To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house.".

4. Discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues".

5. Twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked".

6. Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards".

7. Erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers".

8. Disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water".

9. Pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ruffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Ruffle

Arrangement

Turn topsy-turvy; (invert); bedevil; complicate, involve, perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle, towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple; (fold).

Disorder

Put out of order; derange; ravel; ruffle, rumple.

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Excitation

Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Pain

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Resentment

Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.

Roughness

Render-rough; Adjective: roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.

Crosswords: Ruffle

Books

• Jokers Are Wild: 52 Plays to Ruffle Your Lover (reference)

• Ruffle, Coo and Hoo Doo (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fluffy Ruffle Girls (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Dust Ruffle - ABC 123 (reference)

• Dust Ruffle - Baby Looney Tunes - Balloon Fun (reference)

• Dust Ruffle - Garden Bunny (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "ruffle": ruffle its feathers ♦ ruffle of a boot ♦ ruffle one's feathers ♦ ruffle one's hair ♦ ruffle smb.'s feelings ♦ ruffle smb.'s temper ♦ ruffle up ♦ To ruffle the feathers of. Additional references.

Beginning with "ruffle": ruffle-edged, ruffle-fronted.

Albanian

rrudhosje (rugosity), rrudhos (crease, pucker, ruck, wrinkle), valëzoj (corrugate), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, trouble, vex, worry), shpupurish (dishevel, poke, tousle), ngacmoj (annoy, badger, banter, bedevil, bother, chaff, chip, dare, excite, guy, harass, Harrow, Harry, irritate, jolly, molest, monkey, nag, nettle, provoke, rag, rally, tamper, tease), gushore (necklace, ruff), fruda (frill, froufrou, furbelow, valance), bezdis (bore, displease, get, grate, Harrow, hassle, importune, inconvenience, nag, peeve, persecute, pester, press, pursue, tease, trouble, vex). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كشكش (flounce, frill), ‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, roil, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏موجة صغيرة (ripple), ‏نفش (tease), ‏قلب صفحات بسرعة, ‏قبة (canopy, collar, cupola, dome, marabout, roof, ruff, tester, turtlenecked), ‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, embitter, fret, gall, incense, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, embitter, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏تموج (corrugate, fluctuate, ripple, roll, stream, undulate, undulation, vibration, wave), ‏تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crinkle, crumple, furrow, pucker, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏خلط ورق اللعب (riffle, shuffle), ‏جعد (corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, frizz, frizzy, furrow, ruckle, rumple), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏شعث (dishevel, rumple). (various references)

Bulgarian 

волан (flounce, frill, furbelow, skirt, steering wheel, wheel), перча се (flounce, parade, prance, prank, rodomontade, roister, splurge, swagger, swash), прелиствам бързо, биене на барабан (drumbeat, tuck), безпокойство (alarm, anxiety, bother, care, concernment, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fash, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, plague, qualm, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, upset, whim-wham, worriment, worrit, worry), бръчка (cockle, corrugation, line, plica, plication, pucker, ruck, ruckle, rugosity, rumple, seam, wrinkle), жабо (dicky, frill, gorget, jabot), държа се предизвикателно, набор (class, composition, draft, draught, frill, furbelow, gathers, intake, matter, pucker, quilling, ruck, shirr, skirt, typesetting), смущение (abashment, alarm, bewilderment, confusion, discomposure, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, intimidation, muddle, perplexity, perturbation, uneasiness, upset), вълничка (dimple, ripple, wavelet), кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, dustup, hassle, jangle, odds, quarrel, row, rumpus, run in, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle), раздразням (crab, exasperate, heat, peeve, pip, pique), разчорлям (dishevel, rumple), разрошвам (dishevel, rough up, shag, tousle), смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, flurry, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, rattle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), надиплям (enfold, fold, kilt, lap, pleat, quill, ruck). (various references)

Chinese 

皱纹. (various references)

Czech

rozcuchat (dishevel, muss, tousle), rozèílit, volán (frill), shrnout (epitomize, recap, recapitulate, sum, sum up, summarize), okruží (ruff), naèechrat (shake up), karnýr (frill). (various references)

Dutch

darmvet (gut fat, ruffle fat, suet). (various references)

Farsi 

موجدارکردن(مثل بادبراب), ناهموارکردن (Ruffe), ناصاف کردن , ژولیده کردن , گره زدن (Knit, Knot, Loop, Tie, Truss, Twitch), تلاطم (Lop, Seethe, Shock, Toss, Turbulence), برهم زدن (Bash, Coup, Derange, Disarrange, Disband, Disorder, Disturb, Tousle, Unsettle), براشفتن (Embarrass, Excite). (various references)

Finnish

pörröttää (back-comb, rumple). (various references)

French

rider, ride, rebrousser, troubler, trouble (ruction), ondulation, manchette, mélanger, irriter, hérisser, froisser (ruckle, rumple), déranger, chiffonner (rumple), ébouriffer (rumple). (various references)

German

sträuben (bristle, get up, rise, stand, stand up, to bristle). (various references)

Greek 

σούφρα (plait), πτύσσω (fold, pucker, tuck), πτυχή (crease, crumple, fold, plait, ply, pucker, rimple, ruck, tuck), ανακατεύω (admix, blend, churn, mix, muddle, pie, scramble, shuffle the cards, stir), αναμαλλιάζω (disarrange), τσαλακώνω (crumple, muss, rumple), ταράσσω (abash, agitate, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flurry, flutter, jar, roil, shock, stir), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, pother, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ר�'יז (aggravate, annoy, displease, enrage, incense, madden, miff, molest, needle, offend, peeve, provoke, rile, spite, vex), ל�"בלל (rarefy, thin out), �"בלול (protrusion). (various references)

Hungarian

izgatottság (chafing, commotion, discomposure, excitement, flurry, flutter, fret, jumpiness, perturbation, throes), fodor (crinkling, dimple, frill, tier). (various references)

Italian

turbarsi, turbare (become agitated, disconcert, distract, disturb, get upset, perturb, trouble, upset), scompigliare (confuse, disarray, dishevel, mess up, muddle up, upset), irrigidire (become stiff, freeze, stiffen), increspatura (ripple), incresparsi (Crinkle, ripple), increspare (Crinkle, gather, pucker, purse, ripple, ruck, ruckle), arruffarsi, arruffare (mat, rumple), agitarsi (agitate, bestir oneself, bustle, fidget, flounder, flutter, fuss, rain, rainfall, shake, stir, tingle, toss, tumble, twitch, wag), agitare (agitate, become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, Frisk, get excited, lash, rattle, shake, shake up, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ラタン家具 (lacquer, ladder, lap, lap time, laptop, LASH, latch, latex, Latin, Latin America, Latin-American, latitude, lucky, lucky seventh, lucky zone, rack, rap, Rassa, rat, rattan furniture, ruck, rudder, rush, rush hour, rush print, Russell, wrap, wrap-around, wraparound skirt, wrapping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラッフル . (various references)

Korean 

경례군악. (various references)

Manx

roo (to them; ruff), robbee (frill), freayney (flow, flow of sea, foam, foaming, fume, heave, heave of sea, overflow, raging, ripple, rippling, surge), cur caulg er. (various references)

Pig Latin

uffleray.(various references)

Portuguese

transformar (convert, make into, metamorphose, process, queer, reduce, remake, remodel, transform, translate, transmute, turn, turn into), preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, pucker, ruck, ruckle, shirr), perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pother, pull down, puzzle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, discomposure, disquiet, disturbance, embarrassment, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, interference, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval), irritar (aggravate, anger, annoy, bug, bullyrag, chafe, corkscrew, disgruntle, displeasure, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, fash, feeze, gall, huff, incense, irritate, madden, nark, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, roil, roughen, sharpen, spite, thurify, vex), fazer perder a calma, enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, disorder, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), contrariar (antagonize, balk, contradict, counteract, counterwork, displeasure, frustrate, nark, oppose, spite, tease, thwart, upset), briga (affray, bicker, close, fight, fray, gale, grapple, melee, noise, scuffle, strife, struggle, wrangle), arreliar (bully, bullyrag, chaff, corkscrew, fret, kid, needle, persecute, rag, tease, torment, twit), amarrotar (cockle, crease, crumble, crumple, rumple, tousle), agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian

manşetã dantelatã, agasa (annoy, banter, chaff, irritate, tease, worry), agita (agitate, arouse, brandish, bustle, churn, excite, fidget, flirt, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, fume, incite, raise, rouse, shake, shake up, shock, stir, trouble, vex, wag, waggle, wave, wriggle), ciufuli (dishevel, rumple, tousle), contrazice (belie, confute, contradict, counter, gainsay), deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, disturb, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, spoil, trouble, tumble), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ripple, shrivel, wave, wrinkle), irita (aggravate, annoy, chafe, crab, exacerbate, exasperate, fret, heat, irritate, nettle, pique, rasp, relax, stroke smb.'s hair the wrong way, vex), zburli (rumple), mototoli (Crinkle, crumple, crush, Rive, rumple, tumble), plisa (Crimp, Crinkle, draw, enfold, fold, frill, full, goffer, pleat, tuck), se şifona (crease), se zburli (rumple), sifona (rumple, siphon, take it ill), unduiri, guler (collar, hackle, head, neck, neckband). (various references)

Russian 

суматоха (bustle, clutter, fuss, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, jumble, kerfuffle, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rumpus, splutter, to-do, tumult, tumults, turmoil), рябить (curl, undulate), раздражение (annoyance, exasperation, fret, galling, inflammation, irritation, petulance, pique, provocation, rasp, senitization, vexation), раздражать (acerbate, annoy, exacerbate, exasperate, gall, get in smb.'s hair, get on one's nerves, grate, innervate, irk, irritate, jar, madden, peeve, put out, rasp, rile, roil), хорохориться, гофрировать (crimp), нарушать спокойствие, ерошить оборка, ерошить (ruffling, tousle), пререкаться (brabble, cample, dispute, squabble), дробь барабана (rataplan). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzrujati (agitate, get excited, surge, upset), uzrujanost (agitation, dither, fret, nervousness, tizzy), talasati se (billow, undulate, welter), talasati (ripple), narogušiti, nabirati (corrugate, crimp, plait, pucker, shirr), nabiranje (crimp, shir, shirr), karner (flounce), bubnjava. (various references)

Spanish

rizo (curl, lock of hair, ringlet, ripple), volante fruncido, fruncir (bunch, contract, gather, knit, lower, plait, pucker, pucker up, purse, shirr, smock), erizar (bristle, hedgehog, tingle), chorrera (chute, gully, gutter), arrugarse (Crinkle, crumple, furrow, ruck, ruckle, shrivel up, wrinkle), arrugar (crease, furrow, line, pucker, ruck, ruckle, rumple, screw up, seam, shrivel, wrinkle, wrinkles), arruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, pucker, ridge, ruck, rumple, seam, wrinkle), agitarse (Bob, churn, convulse, fidget, flap, fuss, heave, shake, surge, toss, toss about, toss around, toss up, tumble, twitter, wag, wave), agitar (agitate, excite, flourish, flurry, flutter, rattle, shake, shake up, switch, trouble, wag, wave, whirl, wind up). (various references)

Swedish

krås (frill, giblets, ruff). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งรบกวนใจ, ทำให้กระเพื่อม (ripple), ทำให้ย่น (shrivel), ทำให้ขนตั้งฟู, ทำให้ขุ่นเคือง (nettle, nurse a grudge (against), rile, ruffle someone up the wrong way), การกระเพื่อม, การรัวกลองเบาๆ ติ�"ต่อกัน, กระเพื่อม (ripple, ruffly), ย่น (ruck/ruckle up, rugose, rugous, shrivel), ขุ่นเคือง (off-putting). (various references)

Turkish

heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), boyun tüyleri (hackle, ruff), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), dalgalandırmak (cause to undulate, cockle, corrugate, crisp, curl, ripple, undulate, vex, wave), dalgalanma (fluctuation, ripple, roll, surge, surging, sway, undulation), dalgalanmak (balance, float, flourish, fluctuate, flutter, fly, ripple, shiver, stream, surge, undulate, wave, whip), fırfır (fall, flounce, frill, furbelow), farbala (flounce, flute, frill, furbelow), allak bullak olma, hızlı hızlı çevirmek, telaşlandırmak (alarm, excite, flurry, fluster, fuss, hasten, put in a flurry), kırışıklık (seam, wrinkle), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırmalı yaka (ruff), kızmak (be angry, be angry with smb., be nettled at, be riled at, become hot, chafe, cut up rough, fly off the handle, fret, gall, get hot, get hot under the collar, grow hot, have one's hackles up, heat, huff, inflame, lose one's temper), kabartmak (blister, bloat, bloat up, fluff, fluff out, fluff up, puff, puff up, raise, roughen, roughen up, scribble, tease, vesicate), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), meraklandırmak, süsü takınmak, telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), hırpalamak (batter, beat up, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock about, knock around, maltreat, maul, misuse, punish, work over, worry). (various references)

Ukrainian

гофрувати (corrugate, frill, gauffer, goffer, quill), оборка (flounce, frill, furbelow), брижі (ripple, surge), брижити. (various references)

Vietnamese 

diềm xếp nếp. (various references)

Welsh

garwhau (roughen), crychu (pucker, ripple, wrinkle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ruffle": ruffled, ruffler, rufflers, ruffles. (additional references)

Words ending with "ruffle": truffle. (additional references)

Words containing "ruffle": truffled, truffles, unruffled. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ruffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pruffle, ruffe, Ruffili, Ruffilli, ruffler, Ruffner, rufile, Rufolo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ruffe.

-2 letters: flue, fuel, furl, luff, lure, ruff, rule.

-3 letters: eff, elf, fer, feu, flu, fur, leu, ref, rue.

-4 letters: ef, el, er, re.

+1 letter: bluffer, fearful, fretful, muffler, ruffled, ruffler, ruffles, truffle.

+2 letters: bluffers, fluffier, forceful, mufflers, rufflers, rufflier, rufflike, scuffler, shuffler, siffleur, snuffler, truffled, truffles.

+3 letters: effortful, fearfully, flowerful, forgetful, fretfully, fulfiller, kerfuffle, mufflered, reshuffle, ruffliest, scufflers, shufflers, siffleurs, snufflers, snufflier, unruffled.

+4 letters: fearfuller, forcefully, fulfillers, funnelform, kerfuffles, reshuffled, reshuffles, sufferable, sufferably.

+5 letters: effortfully, faultfinder, fearfullest, fearfulness, floriferous, forgetfully, fretfulness, fruitfuller, overfulfill, reshuffling.