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Synonyms of the word 
RUFFLE → ADORNMENT - AFFRAY - ANNOY - BOTHER - CHAFE - CHOKER - COCK - COCKLE - COLLAR - COMBAT - DEVIL - DISARRANGE - DISPLACE - DISTURBANCE - FIGHT - FIGHTING - FLICK - FLOUNCE - FLOW - FLUFF - FLUSTER - FLUX - FOLD - FRAY - FRILL - FURBELOW - GRAVEL - IRRITATE - LOOSEN - MANIPULATE - MIX - MOVE - NARK - NECKBAND - NETTLE - PLEAT - PRANCE - RAG - RIFFLE - RILE - RIPPLE - RUFF - RUMPLE - SASHAY - SCRAP - SHUFFLE - STRUT - SWAGGER - TITTUP - UNDULATE - VEX - WALKruffle- n. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- n. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- n. (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine…
- v. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- v. (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- v. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- v. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- v. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- v. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- v. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- v. To throw together in a disorderly manner.
adornment- n. A decoration; that which adorns.
- n. The act of decorating.
affray- n. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
- n. A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
- n. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
- v. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
- v. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
annoy- v. (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant…
- v. (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
- v. (transitive) To molest; to harm; to injure.
- n. (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
- n. (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.
bother- v. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
- v. (intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
- v. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
- n. Fuss, ado.
- n. Trouble, inconvenience.
- interj. A mild expression of annoyance.
chafe- n. Heat excited by friction.
- n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
- n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
- n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
- v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
- v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
- v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
- v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
choker- n. A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace, tight to the throat.
- n. One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
- n. One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
- n. (slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
- n. One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when…
cock- n. A male bird, especially.
- n. A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- n. The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- n. The notch of an arrow or crossbow.
- n. (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- n. (curling) The circle at the end of the rink.
- n. The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- n. (Britain, New Zealand, pejorative, slang) A stupid person.
- n. (informal, Britain, Tasmania) Term of address.
- n. A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
- n. (informal) shuttlecock.
- n. A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- n. (dated, humorous) A chief man; a leader or master.
- n. The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- n. The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- n. The indicator of a balance.
- n. The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to…
- v. (intransitive) To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- v. (transitive) To erect; to turn up.
- v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To copulate with.
- v. (transitive) To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision…
- v. (intransitive, dated) To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To make a nestle-cock of, to pamper or spoil (of children).
- interj. (slang) Expression of annoyance.
- n. (dated in the Southern US, still sometimes found in African American Vernacular) Vulva, vagina.
- n. A small conical pile of hay.
- v. (transitive) To form into piles.
- n. Short for cock-boat, a type of small boat.
- p.n. (obsolete) A corruption of the word God, used in oaths.
cockle- n. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- n. The shell of such a mollusk.
- n. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
- n. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker.
- n. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep.
- n. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- n. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.
- n. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- n. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.
- v. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
- n. Any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, Agrostemma githago, and Lolium temulentum.
collar- n. Anything that encircles the neck.
- n. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- n. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
- n. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- n. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
- n. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- n. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope…
- n. (slang) An arrest.
- v. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- v. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- v. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
- v. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
- v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
- v. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
combat- n. A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.
- v. (transitive) To fight with; to struggle for victory against.
devil- n. (theology) A creature of hell.
- n. (theology) (the devil or the Devil) The chief devil; Satan.
- n. The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- n. A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous…
- n. A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- n. (euphemistically, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- n. A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil…
- n. A dust devil.
- n. (religion, Christian Science) An evil or erring entity.
- n. (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- n. (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- n. A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- n. A Tasmanian devil.
- n. (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- v. To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- v. To annoy or bother; to bedevil.
- v. To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- v. To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- v. To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- v. To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and…
disarrange- v. To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.
displace- v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- v. (psycology) to repress.
disturbance- n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
- n. Something that disturbs.
- n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
- n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
- n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
fight- v. (intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.
- v. (intransitive) To strive for; to campaign or contend for success.
- v. (transitive) To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.).
- v. (transitive) To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with.
- v. (transitive) To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to fight; to manage or manoeuvre in a fight.
- n. An occasion of fighting.
- n. (archaic) A battle between opposing armies.
- n. A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups.
- n. (sports) A boxing or martial arts match.
- n. A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife.
- n. The will or ability to fight.
- n. (obsolete) A screen for the combatants in ships.
fighting- v. present participle of fight.
- adj. Engaged in war or other conflict.
- adj. Apt to provoke a fight.
- n. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.
flick- n. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- n. (informal) A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- n. (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike…
- n. (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
- n. The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- n. A flitch.
- v. To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
flounce- v. To move in an exaggerated, bouncy manner.
- v. (archaic) To flounder; to make spastic motions.
- v. To decorate with a flounce.
- v. To leave a group dramatically, in a way that draws attention to oneself.
- n. (sewing) A strip of decorative material, usually pleated, attached along one edge; a ruffle.W.
- n. The act of flouncing.
flow- n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
- n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
- n. The rising movement of the tide.
- n. Smoothness or continuity.
- n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
- n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
- v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
- v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
fluff- n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
- n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
- v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
- v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
- v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
fluster- v. (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
- v. (by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
- v. (intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
flux- n. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- n. A state of ongoing change.
- n. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
- n. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically…
- n. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
- n. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
- n. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
- v. To use flux.
- v. To melt.
- v. To flow as a liquid.
- adj. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
fold- v. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- v. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- v. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
- v. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- v. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- v. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- v. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- v. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
- v. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- v. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- v. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- n. An act of folding.
- n. A bend or crease.
- n. Any correct move in origami.
- n. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold…
- n. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window…
- n. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- n. A group of sheep or goats.
- n. A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
- n. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- n. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary…
- n. (computing, programming) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process…
- n. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- n. (figuratively) Home, family.
- n. (religion, Christian) A church congregation, a church, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- n. (obsolete) A boundary or limit.
- v. To confine sheep in a fold.
- n. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
fray- n. Affray; broil; contest; combat; brawl; melee.
- n. (archaic) fright.
- v. (intransitive) To unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a…
- v. (intransitive, figuratively) To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength).
- v. (transitive, archaic) frighten; alarm.
- v. (transitive) To bear the expense of; to defray.
- v. (intransitive) To rub.
frill- n. A strip of pleated material used as decoration or trim; a ruffle.
- n. (photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.
- n. A luxury.
- n. Something extraneous added for effect.
- v. (transitive) To make into a frill.
- v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
- v. (transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To shake or shiver as with cold.
furbelow- n. A ruffle, frill or flounce on clothing.
- n. A decorative piece of fabric, usually gathered or pleated.
- n. A small, showy ornamentation.
- v. (transitive) To adorn with a furbelow; to ornament.
gravel- n. (uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railroads, and as ballast.
- n. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- n. (uncountable, geology) A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- n. (uncountable, archaic) Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the…
- v. (transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
- v. To puzzle or annoy.
- v. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
- v. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
- v. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
irritate- v. (transitive) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
- v. (transitive) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
- v. (intransitive) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
- v. (transitive) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
- v. (obsolete) To render null and void.
loosen- v. To make loose.
- v. To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- v. To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
manipulate- v. (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands.
- v. (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something.
- v. (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose.
- v. (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that…
mix- v. To stir two or more substances together.
- v. To combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate.
- v. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
- v. To use a mixer (machine) on.
- v. (music) To combine several tracks.
- v. (music) To produce a finished version of a recording.
- v. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
- n. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.
- n. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
- n. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.
- n. (music) The finished version of a recording.
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
nark- n. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.
- n. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others; a spoilsport.
- v. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.
- v. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- v. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.
- n. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).
neckband- n. A band worn around the neck.
- v. To attach a band around the neck (especially of wild animals).
nettle- n. Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- n. Certain plants that have spines or prickles.
- n. Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica.
- n. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
- v. (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
- v. (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.
pleat- n. (sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with…
- n. (botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending…
- n. A plait.
- v. (transitive) To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
prance- n. (uncommon) The act of prancing.
- v. (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs.
- v. (colloquial, figuratively) To strut about.
rag- n. (in the plural) Tattered clothes.
- n. A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter.
- n. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- n. A ragged edge in metalworking.
- n. (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- n. (slang, pejorative) A newspaper, magazine.
- n. (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- v. (intransitive) To become tattered.
- n. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- v. To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- v. To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- v. To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
- v. (Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- v. To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- v. (music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
- n. (dated) A prank or practical joke.
- n. (Britain, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- n. (obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
- n. A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- v. (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- v. (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
riffle- n. A fast-flowing, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- n. A succession of small waves.
- n. A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching…
- n. A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- n. The act of shuffling cards; the sound made while shuffling cards.
- v. (intransitive) To flow over a fast moving shallow part of a stream.
- v. (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- v. (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- v. (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- v. (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges…
- v. (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- v. (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
rile- v. to make angry.
- v. to stir or move from a state of calm or order.
ripple- n. A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
- n. A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- n. A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- n. (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- v. To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- v. To propagate like a moving wave.
- v. To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- v. (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze.
- n. An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom…
- v. To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
ruff- n. A gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia, Philomachus pugnax.
- n. Alternative spelling of ruffe a small freshwater fish; a pope.
- n. A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan…
- n. Anything formed with plaits or flutings, like the frill.
- n. (obsolete) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
- n. (obsolete) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
- n. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- n. (engineering) A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- n. A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
- v. To ruffle; to disorder.
- v. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- v. (hawking) To hit (the prey) without fixing it.
- n. (obsolete) A card game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
- v. (card games) To play a trump card to a trick, other than when trumps were led.
- adj. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of rough.
- interj. The bark of a dog; woof.
rumple- v. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
- v. To muss.
- v. To tousle.
sashay- n. A chassé.
- n. A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
- v. (intransitive) To walk casually or showily; to strut, swagger or flounce.
- v. (intransitive) To chassé when dancing.
- v. (intransitive) To move sideways.
scrap- n. A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
- n. (usually in the plural) Leftover food.
- n. Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
- n. (ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated to the Norte gang.
- n. The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
- v. (transitive) To discard.
- v. (transitive, of a project or plan) To stop working on indefinitely.
- v. (intransitive) To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
- v. (transitive) To dispose of at a scrapyard.
- v. (transitive) To make into scrap.
- n. A fight, tussle, skirmish.
- v. to fight.
shuffle- n. The act of shuffling cards.
- n. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- n. (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with…
- n. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
- v. To put in a random order.
- v. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
- v. To change; modify the order of something.
- v. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- v. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
- v. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
- v. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
strut- v. (intransitive) To swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out.
- v. (intransitive, originally said of fowl) To stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- v. (intransitive) To walk proudly or haughtily.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to swell; enlarge; give more importance to.
- v. (transitive) To protrude; cause to bulge.
- n. A proud step or walk, with the head erect; affected dignity in walking.
- adj. (archaic) Swelling out; protuberant; bulging.
- n. A support rod.
- v. (transitive, construction) To brace or support by a strut ot struts; hold in place or strengthen by an…
swagger- v. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
- v. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
- n. Confidence, pride.
- n. A bold or arrogant strut.
- n. A prideful boasting or bragging.
- n. (Australia, historical) Synonym of swagman.
tittup- n. A caper, or canter.
- v. (intransitive) To prance or frolic; of a horse, to canter easily.
undulate- v. (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- v. (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
- v. (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
- v. (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
- adj. Wavy in appearance or form.
- adj. Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice.
- adj. (botany, of a margin) sinuous, winding up and down.
vex- v. (transitive, now rare) To trouble aggressively, to harass.
- v. (transitive) To annoy, irritate.
- v. (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
- v. (transitive, rare) To twist, to weave.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
- v. (transitive) To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
walk- v. (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side…
- v. (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- v. (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- v. (transitive) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- v. (transitive) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- v. (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- v. (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- v. To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- v. To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet,…
- v. (obsolete) To be in motion; to act; to move.
- v. (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- v. (transitive, informal, hotel) To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available…
- n. A trip made by walking.
- n. A distance walked.
- n. (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before…
- n. A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- n. A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail.
- n. (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling…
- n. (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known…
- n. In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- n. (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- n. (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- n. (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding…
- n. (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
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