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 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.
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.
Stefan stared at her, scratching his touzled yellow head, and turned to his wife, who was looking at him as she poised a forkful of fat bacon in the air, forgetfully.
From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
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 Newberry, Fannie E.
Then Blob stood before them, touzled, pink, his ears wide, an apple tight between his teeth.
From The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea by Ollivant, Alfred
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 Mitford, Bertram
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
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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