Green’s Dictionary of Slang

swaggering, boastful.

1596		Nashe Have With You to Saffron-Walden in Works III (1883–4) 106: Gabriell [...] came ruffling it out, hufty tuffty, in his suite of velvet.
1599		Nashe Praise of the Red Herring 21: Huftie-tuftie youthful ruffling comrades, wearing euery one three yeardes of feather in his cap for his mistris fauour.