different between hector vs ruffle

English

Etymology

From Hector (“in Greek and Roman mythology, a character in Homer’s Iliad who is the greatest warrior of Troy”), from Late Middle English Hector (“warrior with the qualities of Hector”), from Latin Hect?r or Ancient Greek ????? (Hékt?r), from ????? (hékt?r, “holding fast”), from ????? (ékhein), present active infinitive of ??? (ékh?, “to have, own, possess; to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold; to overpower”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?kt?/
• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)
• Hyphenation: hec?tor

Noun

hector (plural hectors)

1. Sometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a blusterer, bully.

Translations

Verb

hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)

1. (transitive) To dominate or intimidate in a blustering way; to bully, to domineer.

   Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize
2. (intransitive) To behave like a hector or bully; to bluster, to swagger; to bully.

   Synonym: huff

Alternative forms

• hectour (obsolete, rare)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• hector in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

See also

• Not to be confused with hectare.

Anagrams

• Troche, orchet, rochet, rotche, tocher, troche

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)

1. Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
2. Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

3. (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
4. (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)

1. (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.

2. (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
3. (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
4. (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
5. (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
6. To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
7. To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
   • 1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art
8. (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
9. To throw together in a disorderly manner.

Translations

Derived terms

• rufflement
• ruffler
• ruffle some feathers
• ruffle up
• ruffly
• unruffled

References

Anagrams

• Fulfer, luffer