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What is the adjective for ruffle?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs ruff and ruffle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ruffled
  1. Having ruffles.
  2. Puffed up like a bird's feathers.
  3. Bothered.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. offended, annoyed, angry, irritated, resentful, upset, piqued, disgruntled, indignant, peeved, aggrieved, displeased, vexed, cross, irked, riled, exasperated, hurt, nettled, angered, miffed, sore, affronted, aggravated, bothered, narked, distressed, galled, wounded, outraged, provoked, huffy, stung, pained, insulted, disturbed, tooshie, miffy, agitated, eggy, injured, grieved, snuffy, slighted, rattled, needled, vex, snubbed, salty, put out … more
ruffer
  1. comparative form of ruff: more ruff
rufflike
  1. Resembling a ruff or some aspect of one.
ruff
  1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of rough.
ruffly
  1. Having many ruffles.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fluttery, flickery, flittery, quivering, quivery, darting, flapping, flitting, palpitating, quaverous, quavery, trembly, twitching, wiggly, agitating, beating, flailing, flicking, flitty, palpitant, pulsating, quavering, shivering, shivery, vibratory, waggish, wiggling, wobbling, wobbly, flopping, thrashing, threshing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back.”
      “There stood a dark-skinned adolescent with close-cropped hair, whose gender I could detect only because of her ruffly dress.”
      “Gap's merchandise today is an unlikely mix of pants in khaki and olive green, and floaty, ruffly tops in peach and beige.”
ruffed
  1. Having a ruff.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Photuris pennsylvanica officially took its place alongside the whitetail deer, ruffed grouse, and Great Dane as official state symbols.”
      “His shirtfront boasted a large ruffed collar that measured at least twelve inches in breadth.”
      “And the Poconos' deciduous forests harbor a wealth of birds, ranging from the scarlet tanager to the ruffed grouse.”
ruffest
  1. superlative form of ruff: most ruff
ruffing
  1. present participle of ruff
  2. Synonyms:
      3. woofing, barking, howling, yelping, yapping, baying, crying, wailing, growling, snarling, yipping, bowwowing … more
ruffling
  1. present participle of ruffle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. annoying, harassing, aggravating, antagonizing, bugging, exasperating, galling, getting, goading, irking, irritating, narking, nettling, peeving, pestering, riling, vexing, frustrating, nagging, upsetting, angering, bothering, displeasing, disturbing, hassling, incensing, infuriating, maddening, making angry, needling, provoking, teasing, agitating, getting to, incommoding, making cross, molesting, perturbing, troubling, worrying, badgering, bedeviling, bedevilling, breaking, chafing, distressing, enraging, frosting, gnawing, grating … more
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