touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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
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
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
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 Richard Marsh
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 Franz Beyerlein
When the man felt Paul’s hand extracting the ball from his mass of touzled hair, he clutched at the place, saying:
From The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
The majority wore cheap earrings and black wigs with preternaturally polished hair; where there was no wig, the hair was touzled.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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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