touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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.
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.
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
We awoke with the sun, feeling—I speak for myself—rather touzled and chippy, and waited a long time for the orders to proceed.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Gleichen, Edward, Lord
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
The Intelligence officer entered the room to find an overbearded young man and a very touzled, plump young lady sitting sheepishly hand-in-hand.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
Ingeborg had pored over it for days, making careful squares with a ruler and doing all the principal words in red ink, her hair touzled by the stresses of thinking out, and her cheeks flushed.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
"A badly-dressed touzled young woman," is the verdict passed on her.
From The Oyster by Peer
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
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
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