tussle
verb (used without object), tus·sled, tus·sling.
noun
Origin of tussle
Related Words for tussle
brawl, scuffle, strife, fray, skirmish, free-for-all, tangle, wrestle, roughhouse, clash, combat, contest, undertaking, scrap, fight, rumble, jam, hassle, encounter, grindExamples from the Web for tussle
Contemporary Examples of tussle
But first, there's a tussle with the senior senator from Arizona to take care of.
They would rustle and tussle it for like three minutes and that was it!
OITNB’s New Villain Vee, Played By Lorraine Toussaint, Speaks for the First TimeKevin Fallon
June 13, 2014
Without his high-school wrestling experience, she might have won the tussle.
Both Parks and Brechneff tussle with the idea of being almost insiders.
In the film, we watch as Gollum gets in a tussle with his next meal, an unsuspecting goblin.
‘The Hobbit’: 19 Changes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Novel to Peter Jackson’s MovieAnna Klassen
December 14, 2012
Historical Examples of tussle
Jim-the-ladder has been a prize-fighter in his day, and there was a tussle.
A Son of HagarSir Hall Caine
Just a bit of a tussle now and then to keep you from dropping off.
The ManxmanHall Caine
Lydia didn't want him to tussle, but she did want him at the top.
The PrisonerAlice Brown
I came upon it from a tussle with the sea—and I was young—and I saw it looking at me.
YouthJoseph Conrad
Then, perhaps, there might be a tussle between them as to which should have his own way,—or hers.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope