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had been tousling

  • past perfect progressive of tousle.

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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 Herford, Oliver