Feathers Ruffled Noun ˈfeðə(R ˈfeðər Peacock Tail/Flight/Wing Pillow

• a peacock feather
• tail/flight/wing feathers
• a feather pillow (= one containing feathers)
• the senator's speech ruffled a few feathers in the business world.

feather

1. one of the many soft light parts covering a bird’s body
• a peacock feather
• tail/flight/wing feathers
• a feather pillow (= one containing feathers)

Extra Examples

• I had to pluck the dead hen's feathers.
• Its feathers were ruffled by the chill breeze.
• The chicks have grown their adult feathers.
• The owl fluffed out its feathers.
• a fledgling with new flight feathers
• a swan preening its feathers
• the downy feathers on the duck's breast
2. people of the same sort (are found together)
3. an action that you can be proud of
4. to annoy or upset somebody or a group of people
• The senator's speech ruffled a few feathers in the business world.
5. to make somebody feel less angry or offended
6. used to express surprise

Word Origin

• Old English fether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veer and German Feder, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit patra ‘wing’, Latin penna ‘feather’, and Greek pteron, pterux ‘wing’.