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English
Etymology
From to- + ruffle.
Pronunciation
Verb
toruffle (third-person singular simple present toruffles, present participle toruffling, simple past and past participle toruffled)
- (transitive, archaic) To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
1634 October 9 (first performance), , edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: , before the Right Honorable, Iohn Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount Brackly, Lord President of Wales, and One of His Maiesties Most Honorable Privie Counsell.">…] , London: ">…] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings / That in the various bustle of resort / Were all toruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd.