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Definition of Tousle
1. Verb. Disarrange or rumple; dishevel. "The strong wind tousled my hair"
Definition of Tousle
1. v. t. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Definition of Tousle
1. Verb. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tousle
1. to dishevel [v -SLED, -SLING, -SLES] - See also: dishevel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tousle
Literary usage of Tousle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by Theophilus Parsons (1836)
"... produce the examination of a tousle*- a» evidence of iiia confession, he ought
to be bound by it,. ..."
2. W. B. Yeats: The Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus by William Butler Yeats, David R. Clark, James B. McGuire (1989)
"Only the former change was made in 1934, but we consider that the 1932 proof
gives Yeats's authority to "tousle-headed" when it is marked in the 1939 proofs ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Blackw. May. 2. Hough ; shaggy, S. Burnt. To tousle ... To tousle out, ». a.
To torn out in a confused way, SA Antiquary. To TOUSS, ».a. 1. ..."
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