ruff | (noun) (card games) the act of taking a trick with a trump when unable to follow suit | Synonyms: trumping |
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(noun) common Eurasian sandpiper; the male has an erectile neck ruff in breeding season | Synonyms: Philomachus pugnax |
(noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruffle |
(noun) an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | Synonyms: frill |
(verb) play a trump | Synonyms: trump |
ruffian | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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ruffianism | (noun) violent lawless behavior | - |
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ruffianly | (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: tough |
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ruffle | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray |
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(noun) a high tight collar | Synonyms: choker, neck ruff, ruff |
(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, furbelow |
(verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
(verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
(verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
(verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
(verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
(verb) trouble or vex | - |
(verb) discompose | - |
(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
ruffled | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, frilly |
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(adjective) shaken into waves or undulations as by wind | Synonyms: rippled |