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tousle
or ٴdz·
[ tou-zuhl ]
verb (used with object)
tousled, tousling.
- to disorder or dishevel:
The wind tousled our hair.
- to handle roughly.
noun
- a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- a disordered, disheveled, or tangled condition.
tousle
/ ˈٲʊə /
verb
- to tangle, ruffle, or disarrange
- to treat roughly
noun
- a disorderly, tangled, or rumpled state
- a dishevelled or disordered mass, esp of hair
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tousle1
C15: from Low German ū to shake; related to Old High German ūō to tear to pieces
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"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
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He had been famous since he was a teenager and a sex symbol for just as long, a tousled Californian with a movie star smile.
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She hadn’t brought it along to brush his tousled curls.
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Mr. Brown’s tousled hair and gravelly voice have spoken to working-class voters since he was elected Ohio’s secretary of state in 1982.
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The 1920s had found a superstar, who with her tousled hair, leather jacket, scarf and khakis, buoyed the world through the Depression.
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