ruffler
Example Sentences
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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!
From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed
Sit you upon your chair that I may call one to send this ruffler here.'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
