Frill vs. Ruffle: What's the Difference?

A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing.

A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration.

A projection as of hair, feathers, bone, or cartilage, about the neck of an animal.

A ruff on a bird.

A wrinkling of the edge of a photographic film.

An irregularity or a slight disturbance of a surface

(Informal)Something that is desirable but not a necessity; a luxury.

A beating or rustling sound

To make into a ruffle or frill.

A low continuous beating of a drum that is not as loud as a roll. Also called ruff4.

To add a ruffle or frill to.

To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple

To become wrinkled along the edge.

To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle.

A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim.

To put a ruffle on (a garment, for example).

(figurative) A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric.

To erect (the feathers). Used of birds.

(photography) A wrinkled edge to a film.

To discompose or annoy; fluster

(figurative) Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury.

To flip through (the pages of a book).

(zoology) The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one.

To shuffle (cards).

(transitive) To make into a frill.

To become irregular or rough

(intransitive) To become wrinkled.

To become annoyed or flustered

(transitive) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.

To flip through the pages of a book

To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).

To search for something in a container

To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).

To make a beating or rustling sound.

To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.

To beat a ruffle on (a drum).

To wrinkle; - said of the gelatin film.

(Obsolete) To behave arrogantly or roughly; swagger.

To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.

Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.

A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.

Disturbance; agitation; commotion.

A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

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

Something superfluous, such as an ornament, or an additional function on a device or in a system not essential to the basic operation. - Commonly used in the phrase no frills, used adjectively to indicate a fully functional but economical device or service; as, an economical no-frills airline.

(zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.

A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

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

(transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.

(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.

(military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.

To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.

To erect in a ruff, as feathers.

To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.

To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.

To throw into disorder or confusion.

To throw together in a disorderly manner.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.

To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.

To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.

That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.

A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; - called also ruff.

The connected series of large egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca.

A strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

A high tight collar

A noisy fight

Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

Trouble or vex;

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others;

Discompose;

Twitch or flutter;

Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;

Erect or fluff up;

Disturb the smoothness of;

Pleat or gather into a ruffle;