Irk vs Ruffle - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between irk and ruffle

is that irk is to irritate; annoy; bother while ruffle is to disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

As a noun ruffle is

any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.^{W

irk English

Verb
(en verb)

to irritate; annoy; bother
It irks me to do all this work and have someone destroy it.

Synonyms
* See also

Derived terms
* irksome

Anagrams
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English transitive verbs

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ruffle English

Noun
(en noun)

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.^(w)
''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
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Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles , flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
to put the mind in a ruffle
(military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur .

Synonyms
* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelow

Verb
(ruffl)

To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
Ruffle the end of the cuff.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
The wind ruffled the papers.
Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
* I. Taylor
the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
* Sir W. Hamilton
These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
* Dryden
She smoothed the ruffled seas.
* Tennyson
But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
* Shakespeare
The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
* Dryden
On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
* Francis Bacon
They would ruffle with jurors.
* Sir Walter Scott
gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
* Tennyson
[The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
* Chapman
I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.

Derived terms
* ruffly}