Usually means: Fabric strip gathered or pleated.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruffle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ruffle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruffle, ruffle, ruffle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruffle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruffle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ruffle, ruffle: Wordnik
  7. ruffle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ruffle: Wiktionary
  9. ruffle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ruffle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ruffle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ruffle, ruffle: Dictionary.com
  13. ruffle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ruffle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ruffle (disambiguation), Ruffle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ruffle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ruffle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ruffle: Rhymezone
  19. ruffle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ruffle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ruffle: Free Dictionary
  22. ruffle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ruffle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ruffle: Legal dictionary

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  1. ruffle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruffle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruffle, ruffle, ruffle, ruffle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ruffle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See ruffled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
noun:  Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
noun:  (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
noun:  (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
verb:  (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
verb:  (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
verb:  (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
verb:  (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
verb:  To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
verb:  To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
verb:  (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
verb:  To throw together in a disorderly manner.

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