touzle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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
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
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
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
She was a mere mask of passion, no doubt a ridiculous object enough, touzled, dishevelled and shaken with temper, as she leaned forward to get a better view of him.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
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
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
The Tennysonian cloak, the Tennysonian hat, the rolling collar, and the touzled beard and hair were not unique.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
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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