ruffle : Idioms & Phrases

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Ruffle of a boot

  • the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited.
Webster 1913

ruffle up

  • verb disturb the smoothness of
    mess up; ruffle; rumple.
    • ruffle the surface of the water
WordNet

To ruffle the feathers of

  • to exite the resentment of; to irritate.
Webster 1913