What is the meaning of ruffle?

noun

• A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim.
  • synonyms: frill, flounce, furbelow
• A high tight collar.
  • synonyms: choker, ruff, neck ruff
• A noisy fight.
  • synonyms: affray, disturbance, fray

verb

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