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▪ I. ruffled, a.|ˈrʌf(ə)ld|
[f. ruffle n.1]
a. Having a ruffle or ruffles; adorned with ruffles. ruffled shirt, a shirt decorated with ruffles; also transf., = ruffle shirt (b) s.v. ruffle n.1 8.
1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. Proem. 2 A thousand lame Heteroclites..that cozen the world with a guilt spurre and a ruffled boote. a1643Cartwright Ordinary i. ii, Now it looks just like A ruffled boot. 17..Ramsay Tartana 190 Between the ruffl'd lawn and envious glove. 1754Calendar Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 249, 2 fine Ruffled shirts and 2 plain shirts for themselves..sent by the Governor to them. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 595 The French carpenter can⁓not saw his boards without a long pig-tail and ruffled shirt. 1801Fuseli Lect. Art (1848) 393 A mob of shepherds and shepherdesses in flowing wigs and dressed curls, ruffled Endymions, humble Junos. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. at Breakfast-Table i. 19 Joe Warren, the first bloody ruffled-shirt of the Revolution, was as good as born here. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. i. 932 Powdered peruke on nose, and bag at back And cane dependent from the ruffled wrist. 1894Banks Camp. Curiosity 191 Five pence for the doing up of a ruffled blouse. 1905A. H. Rice Sandy 271 A few feet farther away hung a portrait of her grandfather, brave in a high stock and ruffled shirt. 1974J. Aiken Midnight is Place iv. 120 He wore black buckled shoes and a ruffled shirt.
b. transf. in names of plants and birds. ruffled grouse, the ruffed grouse (grouse n.1 1).
1777Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 1025 Agaricus anulatus, Ruffled Agaric. 1850Rep. Comm. Patents: Agric. 1849 (U.S.) 289 The ruffled oat is very much cultivated, and highly esteemed. 1878N. H. Bishop Voy. Paper Canoe 134 The Ruffled Grouse (Bonasa umbellus), so abundant in New Jersey, is not a resident of the peninsula. 1941J. Steinbeck Sea of Cortez xvii. 170 There were many of the ruffled clams with hard, thick, wavy shells.
▪ II. ruffled, ppl. a.|ˈrʌf(ə)ld|
[f. ruffle v.1]
1. Disordered, disarranged; rendered uneven or irregular; crumpled.
1577Harrison England ii. xxiii. (1877) 351 Sundrie antike heads, with ruffeled haire. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 9 The wyld woodgods..find the virgin..With ruffled rayments, and fayre blubbred face. 1638Quarles Elegy upon Dr. Wilson Wks. (Grosart) III. 19 No farre-fetch'd Metaphor shall smooth or slick My ruffled straine. 1671Milton Samson 1138 Bristles..like those that ridge the back Of chaf't wild Boars, or ruffl'd Porcupines. 1755Gray Progr. Poesy 22 With ruffled plumes and flagging wing. 1793Cowper Beau's Reply 19, I only kiss'd his ruffled wing.
2. Of the sea, etc.: Agitated, disturbed.
1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 156 In a black Storm, when..Boreas chas'd the ruffled clouds. 1705Addison Italy 6 While black with Storms the ruffled Ocean rolls. 1815Shelley Alastor 319 Along the dark and ruffled waters. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 205 With that dreadful motion..the ruffled Ocean shook.
3. Of the mind, etc.: Discomposed, irritated.
1741Middleton Cicero I. v. 344 In this ruffled and querulous state of his mind. 1812Crabbe Tales xvi. 550 Gentler movements soothed his ruffled mind. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vi, All-powerful in soothing her most ruffled moods. 1891Baring-Gould In Troubadour Land ii, He..endeavoured by every means to allay her ruffled temper. |