Chapman, Gentleman Usher

1. Powder'd bag-wigs and ruffy - tufy heads Of cinder wenches meet and soil each other. Keats, Cap and Bells, st. 86. II. trans . To bully; insult; annoy. Can I not go about my private meditations, ha! But such companions as you must ruffle me? Fletcher, Wit without Money, v. 3. Now the gravest and worthiest Minister, a true Bishop of his fold, shall be revil'd and ruffl'd by an insulting and only-Canon-wife Prelate, as if he were some slight paltry Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. companion.