different between incommode vs ruffle

English

Etymology

French incommoder, Latin incommodare (“inconvenient”).

Verb

incommode (third-person singular simple present incommodes, present participle incommoding, simple past and past participle incommoded)

1. To disturb, to discomfort, to hinder.
   • 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, Volume I, “The Dwarf,” p. 193,^[1]

     The dwarf suffered inexpressibly on all sides; but the thing which incommoded him most, was a tall corpulent German, near seven feet high, who stood directly betwixt him and all possibility of his seeing either the stage or the actors.

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 5,^[2]

     No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announcing to her son-in-law and his wife that she was provided with a house, and should incommode them no longer than till every thing were ready for her inhabiting it.

   • 1883, R.M. Ballantyne, "The Middy and the Moors", London: Nisbet & Co., Chapter 1, p. 11,^[3]

     Youth, strength, and health are not easily incommoded by wet garments!

Synonyms

• discommode
• inconvenience

Translations

See also

• commode

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: incommodent, incommodes

Verb

incommode

1. first-person singular present indicative of incommoder
2. third-person singular present indicative of incommoder
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of incommoder
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of incommoder
5. second-person singular imperative of incommoder

Latin

Adjective

incommode

1. vocative masculine singular of incommodus

References

• incommode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• incommode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incommode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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