ruffler

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"Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

In New Custome a morality, 1573, Creweltie, one of the characters, is termed a ruffler.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

"It is my intent to lead this company myself," he loftily informed the ruffler.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

As for Falconnet, he was even then a ruffler and a bully, though he was not of the army.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

But I never yet saw a bookworm that did not pale his fires before a soldier of fortune, nor a scholar that did not follow the courtier and the ruffler with eyes of envy.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.