ruffler

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Singer was also the first to invent the "ruffler," a machine for ruffling or gathering cloth, and a device which laid an embroidering thread upon the surface of the cloth under the needle thread.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

Were I called suddenly to the palace would not the king and the court despise me as a drunken ruffler from some revel-rout that had fallen from his horse?

From A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger

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 Francis Lynde

Now—now in the crib, where a ruffler may lie, Without fear that the traps should distress him, With a drop in the mouth, and a drop in the eye, Here's to Gentleman George,—God bless him!

From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton