- a variation of tousle.
touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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There was the same touzle of curly hair, like yellow-brown spun glass or filaments of burnished copper, which was shining now in the westering sun.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
That there patch in partic’lar ’ll be one big touzle o’ weeds, and—” Tantara, tantara, tantara!
From Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story by J. Nash
He left the tent, and paused for a moment outside to touzle affectionately the trampish heads of the bear dogs.
From The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood
Run thou after me and bark, and though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it.”
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
He came out of the difficulty in an exceedingly touzled condition, and with his face much flushed.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens
Her hair was no longer rough and touzled by the wind, but brushed in rippling smoothness and coiled in dainty neatness in the nape of her graceful neck.
From At Love's Cost by Charles Garvice
Perhaps some girl, her hair a touzled mop, Plain-featured, round in shoulder, unpoetic, With hygienic boots that flatly flop— Old style æsthetic.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Now, looking where the Viscount pointed, Barnabas espied the touzled head of Captain Slingsby of the Guards protruding from beneath the settee, and reposing upon a cushion.
From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
After considerable scurrying about inside, plainly distinguished through the thin planking, the door was gingerly opened a few inches and a touzled head appeared in the slit.
From Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls by Fannie E. Newberry
Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a most immaculately clean Quaker bed, under the motherly supervision of Aunt Dorcas, who found him to the full as tractable a patient as a sick bison.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A curious gale was raging through the town, touzling its thatch of chimney-pots, doing violence to the demureness of its respectable streets.
From The Folly Of Eustace 1896 by Robert Smythe Hichens
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