ruffler

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Sit you upon your chair that I may call one to send this ruffler here.'

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

Think you it is only a war-worn, hard-drinking, swashbuckling ruffler that can sin?

From The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini

Now—now in the crib, where a ruffler may lie, Without fear that the traps should distress him, With a drop in the mouth, and a drop in the eye, Here's to Gentleman George,—God bless him!

From Paul Clifford — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

He thought next—and with increasing bitterness—of his own brave schemes, of his love for Valentina, and of how assured he had been that his affections were returned, before this ruffler came amongst them.

From Love-at-Arms by Rafael Sabatini