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toruffle

toruffle

English

Verb

toruffle ‎(third-person singular simple present toruffles, present participle toruffling, simple past and past participle toruffled)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
    She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings / That in the various bustle of resort / Were all toruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd — John Milton, Comus.

Etymology

From to- +‎ ruffle.

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