Ruffled vs Nonplussed - What's the difference?
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Having ruffles.
(ruffle)
Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.(w)
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Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
(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 .
To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
* I. Taylor
* Sir W. Hamilton
* Dryden
* Tennyson
To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
* Shakespeare
To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
* Dryden
To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
* Tennyson
(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
To throw together in a disorderly manner.
* Chapman
Bewildered; unsure how to respond or act.
* 1724 , (Daniel Defoe), :
* Episode 16
* 2000 , Marcia Miller & Martin Lee, Vocabulary, Word of the Day
(proscribed, US, informal) Unfazed, unaffected, or unimpressed.
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Ruffled is a related term of nonplussed.
As adjectives the difference between ruffled and nonplussed
is that ruffled is having ruffles while nonplussed is bewildered; unsure how to respond or act.As verbs the difference between ruffled and nonplussed
is that ruffled is (ruffle) while nonplussed is (nonplus).ruffled
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)ruffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''She loved the dress with the lace ruffle at the hem.
- 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.
- to put the mind in a ruffle
Synonyms
* (strip of fabric) frill, furbelowVerb
(ruffl)- Ruffle the end of the cuff.
- The wind ruffled the papers.
- Her sudden volley of insults ruffled his composure.
- the fantastic revelries that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- She smoothed the ruffled seas.
- But, ever after, the small violence done / Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart.
- The night comes on, and the bleak winds / Do sorely ruffle .
- On his right shoulder his thick mane reclined, / Ruffles at speed, and dances in the wind.
- They would ruffle with jurors.
- gallants who ruffled in silk and embroidery
- [The swan] ruffles her pure cold plume.
- I ruffled up fallen leaves in heap.
Derived terms
* rufflynonplussed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Note, the honest Quaker was nonplussed , and greatly surprised at that question.
- For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
- "Dad was so nonplussed by the new VCR that he gave up and asked Mom to set it for him ".