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Ruffling

RUF'FLING

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ppr.
Disturbing; agitating; furnishing with ruffles.

RUF'FLING

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Noun.
Commotion; disturbance; agitation.

RUF'FLING

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Definition 2024


ruffling

ruffling

English

Noun

ruffling (plural rufflings)

  1. 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

Verb

ruffling

  1. present participle of ruffle