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Definition of Touzles
1. touzle [v] - See also: touzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Touzles
Literary usage of Touzles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"<ich lots of she-spankers, my pippin, large order in satin and plush, Vith spreads
of pink shoulders; slim twisters with touzles of ..."
2. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"... in glen and kirk-yard drear, Whilk touzles a' their tap, and gars them shak
wi' fear. For weel she rows that fiends and fairies be Sent frae the de'il ..."
3. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets by George Gilfillan (1860)
"... glen an kirkyard drear, Whilk touzles a' their tap, an' gars them shake wi' fear!
' ( 8 For weel she trows that fiends an' fairies be Sent frae the deil ..."
4. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1762)
"Dyer, 115. Bro .Adjournment, 15. :6. »7- Raft. ii. Adjournment of Suit! in the
common Bench. (3) and the Writs thereupon ent mandez a touzles ..."
5. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"... that win in glen and kirkyard drear, Whilk touzles a' their tap, and gars them
shake wi' fear! For weel she trows that fiends and fairies be Sent frae ..."
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