ruffler

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I suggested hemmer, tucker, quilter, braider, ruffler, and every known attachment I could think of, but each was produced with a flourish that negatived every proposition.

From Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 by Cole, Almira Stillwell

There was a truculent, Southern pride in the ruffler which sprang immediately into life and which naught that they could say thereafter would stamp out.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael

I marvel," said Raoul, as if he heard her not, "that yonder ruffler comes hither.

From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir

I wonder where next the young ruffler will go.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various