Definify.com
Webster 1828 Edition
Ruffling
RUF'FLING
,ppr.
RUF'FLING
,Noun.
RUF'FLING
,Definition 2024
ruffling
ruffling
English
Noun
ruffling (plural rufflings)
- The action of the verb ruffle
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- Late in the morning I wak'd first; and observing my lover slept profoundly, softly disengag'd myself from his arms, scarcely daring to breathe for fear of shortening his repose; my cap, my hair, my shift, were all in disorder from the rufflings I had undergone
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
Verb
ruffling
- present participle of ruffle