- a variation of tousle.
touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Example Sentences
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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 Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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 Nash, J.
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 Curwood, James Oliver
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 Praed, Campbell, Mrs.
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 Farnol, Jeffery
Dan looked, and saw Hal o' the Draft's touzled head beyond them.
From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard
The majority wore cheap earrings and black wigs with preternaturally polished hair; where there was no wig, the hair was touzled.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
She was a mere mask of passion, no doubt a ridiculous object enough, touzled, dishevelled and shaken with temper, as she leaned forward to get a better view of him.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
But he was all wild-looking and bewildered, with sparkling eyes, and his wig all touzled.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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 Hichens, Robert Smythe
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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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