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• a variation of tousle.

touzle

American  

[tau-zuhl] / ˈtaʊ zəl /

verb (used with object)

touzled, touzling

1. a variant of tousle.

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touzle British  

/ ˈtaʊzəl /

verb

1. a rare spelling of tousle

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Example Sentences

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touzle touzled touzling

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

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

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

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

Behind them, the lunette window under the roof opened again, and a woman's face, framed in black, touzled hair, looked out, grinned and disappeared.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward

I can see you now with your touzled brown hair and your mischievous eyes.

From The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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 Elizabeth von Arnim

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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