touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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
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
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
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 Lionel James
And sometimes I almost think that he delayed matters and touzled 'round amongst them rags jest a purpose to belate himself, so he would have to stay to dinner.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2 by Marietta Holley
He did not look lovely as he lay there, open-mouthed and breathing stertorously, his grey hair all touzled about his red and bloated face.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
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
Cecily was shabby from necessity and somewhat touzled from lolling in the hammock.
From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Anthony Hope
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
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
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