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disquiet
English
Etymology
dis- +? quiet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?kwa??t/
- Rhymes: -a??t
- Hyphenation: dis?quiet
Noun
disquiet (countable and uncountable, plural disquiets)
- Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
- Synonyms: anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness
Translations
Adjective
disquiet (comparative more disquiet, superlative most disquiet)
- (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
- How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their de?ire? but are ?till at ?ome jar with their pre?ent condition, ?o that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ?ome lot, which they apprehend more ?ati?fying than their own, the want whereof turns them more di?quiet than all their enjoyments are plea?ing; […]
- 1719, “Robinson Crusoe” [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, whereon All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself, London: W. Taylor, OCLC 752551201; republished as The Wonderful Life, and Most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York; Mariner. Containing a Full and Particular Account How He Lived Eight and Twenty Years in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America: How His Ship was Lost in a Storm, and All His Companions Drowned; and How He was Cast upon the Shore by the Wreck. With a True Relation How He was at last Miraculously Preserved by Pyrates. Faithfully Epitomized from the Three Volumes, and Adorned with Cutts Suited to the Most Remarkable Stories, London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater noster Row; R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, in Amen-Corner; and J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge, 1737, OCLC 559894466, page 51:
- From this place it was that i u?ed to go often to view my boat; and now i ?hall relate a thing that gave me the mo?t di?quiet of any thing i had ever met with, ?ince my fir?t coming into the i?land. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as u?ual, i perceived on the ?and, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ?een an apparition, i could not have been more terrified.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
Derived terms
- disquieting
- disquietude
Verb
disquiet (third-person singular simple present disquiets, present participle disquieting, simple past and past participle disquieted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.
Synonyms
- unquiet (now rare)
- unsettle
Translations
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ruffle
English
Etymology
From Middle English ruffelen, perhaps from Old Norse hrufla (“to graze, scratch”) or Middle Low German ruffelen (“to wrinkle, curl”). Further origin unknown. Related to Middle Dutch ruyffelen, German Low German ruffeln. See English ruff.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???f?l/
- Rhymes: -?f?l
Noun
ruffle (plural ruffles)
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (strip of fabric): frill, furbelow
Translations
Verb
ruffle (third-person singular simple present ruffles, present participle ruffling, simple past and past participle ruffled)
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- the fantastic revelries […] that so often ruffled the placid bosom of the Nile
- 1860, Sir William Hamilton, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
- These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Guinevere
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
Translations
Derived terms
- rufflement
- ruffler
- ruffle some feathers
- ruffle up
- ruffly
- unruffled
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Anagrams
- Fulfer, luffer
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