ruffle

Noun

• a noisy fight

• a high tight collar

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

Verb

• pleat or gather into a ruffle
  • ruffle the curtain fabric
    

• disturb the smoothness of
  • ruffle the surface of the water
    

• erect or fluff up
  • the bird ruffled its feathers
    

• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
  • shuffle the cards
    

• twitch or flutter
  • the paper flicked
    

• discompose
  • This play is going to ruffle some people
    
  • She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues
    

• to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
  • He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
    

• trouble or vex
  • ruffle somebody's composure
    

• stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  affray , disturbance , fray , choker , ruff , neck ruff , frill , flounce , furbelow , pleat , ruffle up , rumple , mess up , fluff , shuffle , mix , flick , riffle , tittup , swagger , prance , strut , sashay , cock , ripple , cockle , undulate