tousle
verb (used with object)
to disorder or dishevel.
had been tousling
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past perfect progressiveof tousle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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“Brother Bear was looking pretty rough and tough, and so I says, says I, ‘You look as if she had been tousling you about it.’
From Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Oliver Herford
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