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toruffle - What does it mean?

Definition of 'toruffle'

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
  • She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings / That in the various bustle of resort / Were all toruffl'd , and sometimes impair'd'' — John Milton, ''Comus .