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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Disturbing; agitating; furnishing with ruffles.

Noun.

Commotion; disturbance; agitation.

ruffling ‎(plural rufflings)

- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
  Late in the morning I wak'd first; and observing my lover slept profoundly, softly disengag'd myself from his arms, scarcely daring to breathe for fear of shortening his repose; my cap, my hair, my shift, were all in disorder from the rufflings I had undergone

ruffling