ruckle
/ˈɹʌkəl/
ruckle verb: to crease or wrinkle.
Verb (1)
ruckle (third-person singular simple present ruckles, present participle ruckling, simple past and past participle ruckled)
Noun (1)
ruckle (plural ruckles)
- A disordered collection.
- Seldom he comes by this way ; but he is amang them yonder, wi' a hookit nose and chin, grey blear'd een, lang black hair, and a ruckle o' duds for claise o' a' sorts, wi' bits o' embroidery sewed on them.1821, John Warren, William Blackwood, Bannockburn, a novel, page 57
- She can't sit in the car by herself for a couple of hours whilst I clamber up a rocky river bed to see a ruckle of stones and a view that you can't see for the rain and mist, so I magnanimously say I'll come with her.2006, David M. Addison, A Meander in Menorca, →ISBN, page 246
- A wrinkle.
- After the second lunch, with a little more to drink, he helped her into her coat more zealously, smoothing the material down over one should blade as if the cloth had suddenly thrown up a ruckle.2010, Julian Barnes, Before She Met Me, →ISBN
- When she was little and I went to see her in bed, I often thought she wasn't there. She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.2013, Candida Lycett Green, Over The Hills And Far Away, →ISBN
Noun (2)
ruckle (plural ruckles)
- A rattling noise in the throat, as from suffocation.
Verb (2)
ruckle (third-person singular simple present ruckles, present participle ruckling, simple past and past participle ruckled)
- To make a rattling noise in the throat.
Proper noun capitalized: Ruckle
Ruckle (plural Ruckles)
- A surname.
ruckle meaning in Tamil
ruckle in Tamil
- சங்குக் கடைவொலி
Examples of ruckle in a sentence
- The ground there is a ruckle of loose stones arranged in flat beds by running water, possibly by streams which flow out of 'the Gulf of Mexico,' or whatever the name of the highest corrie may be.2007, John Campbell, A Short American Tramp, →ISBN, page 213:
- My father said to me after the harvest, 'Now your mother's a ruckle of bones in the kirkyard, there's nobody to knit sea stockings for us.2014, George Mackay Brown, A Time to Keep, →ISBN:
- It meant ruckling his sock right down, and nobody likes a ruckly sock, but this was no time to be stopped by a ruckle.2015, Georgia Pritchett, Wilf the Mighty Worrier: Saves the World, →ISBN:
Forms of ruckle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | ruckles |
| present participle | ruckling |
| past participle | ruckled |
| past | ruckled |
| Noun | |
| plural | ruckles |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ruckles |
Origin of ruckle
Variant of ruck.
Probably cognate with Dutch rochelen (“to hawk”).
Words formed from ruckle
Words that rhyme with ruckle
Questions about ruckle
- What does ruckle mean?
- Ruckle means to crease or wrinkle.
- What is ruckle in Tamil?
- Ruckle in Tamil is சங்குக் கடைவொலி. See Ruckle meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ruckle in a sentence?
- The ground there is a ruckle of loose stones arranged in flat beds by running water, possibly by streams which flow out of 'the Gulf of Mexico,' or whatever the name of the highest corrie may be.
- What part of speech is ruckle?
- Ruckle can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ruckle?
- Ruckle is pronounced /ˈɹʌkəl/.
- What is the past tense of ruckle?
- The past tense of ruckle is ruckled.
Words near ruckle in the dictionary
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