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
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.
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)
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.
"Are you glad to see me, too?" he asked, laughing at her flushed cheeks, and touzled, flaxen hair.
From Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore by Brooks, Amy
Vogt said, very politely: "Wait; I will set you free;" and pulling out his knife, cut the string, whereupon the petticoats fell down, and a touzled head made its appearance.
From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz
Seeing him in his nightshirt of doubtful cleanliness, and with his touzled hair, you might not have supposed that there was fire in his soul, but there was.
From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard
Three flights up a Woman in a dressing-gown, with touzled hair, opened a door and looked at me silently as I passed.
From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Under the pillars before the heavy, swinging doors were two rows of beggars; they were dirtier, more touzled and tangled, fiercer and more ironically falsely submissive than any beggars that, he had ever seen.
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
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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