English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of ruffle

ruffle

/verb/ चिढ़ाना; झालकर बनाना; व्याकुल करना; झालर; विकलता; परेशानी; घबड़ाहट; ढोल का धीमा शब्द;
/noun/गुलूबंद;

Synonym tease; ruffle up; discompose; fringe; nervousness; discomposre; fret; neckerchief;

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English Dictionary:

1. Ruffle

[v. i.]

- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

2. Ruffle

[v. t.]

- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
- To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
- To throw into disorder or confusion.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.

3. Ruffle

[v. t. & i.]

- That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
- A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
- The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.