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1. Shaken into waves or undulations as by wind
   "with ruffled flags flying";
   - rippled
    
2. Having decorative ruffles or frills
   - frilled, frilly

1. Stir up (water) so as to form ripples
   - ripple, riffle, cockle, undulate
    
2. Trouble or vex
   "ruffle somebody's composure"
    
3. To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
   "He ruffles around like a rooster in a hen house";
   - tittup, swagger, prance, strut, sashay [N. Amer], cock
    
4. Discompose
   "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
    
5. Twitch or flutter
   "the paper ruffled";
   - flick, riffle
    
6. Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
   "ruffle the cards";
   - shuffle, mix
    
7. Erect or fluff up
   "the bird ruffled its feathers";
   - fluff
    
8. Disturb the smoothness of
   "ruffle the surface of the water";
   - ruffle up, rumple, mess up
    
9. Pleat or gather into a ruffle
   "ruffle the curtain fabric";
   - pleat

See also: adorned, agitated, decorated, shake up

Type of: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, disarrange, displace, flow, fluster, flux, fold, fold up, get at [informal], get to, gravel [US], irritate, loosen, manipulate, move, nark [Brit, slang], nettle, rag, rile, roil [N. Amer], tick off [informal], turn up, vex, walk

Encyclopedia: Ruffled