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Ruffler   Listen
noun
Ruffler  n.  
1.
One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. "Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers."
2.
That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.





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"Ruffler" Quotes from Famous Books



... him the honor to learn by heart portions of his play, and to repeat (without quotation marks) a number of his epigrams; while the pretty fellow whose cane he had struck up practiced night and morning before a mirror his bow and manner of presenting his snuffbox. A fourth ruffler desired office, and cared not to offend a prospective Councilor. There was rumor, too, of a grand entertainment to be given at Fair View; it was good to stand well with the law, but it was imperative to do so with Mr. Marmaduke Haward. Their hands fell; they ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston


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