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tousle

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tou⋅sle

  [tou-zuhl] verb, -sled, -sling, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to disorder or dishevel: The wind tousled our hair.
2. to handle roughly.
–noun
3. a disheveled or rumpled mass, esp. of hair.
4. a disordered, disheveled, or tangled condition.
Also, touzle.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME touselen (v.); c. LG tūseln. See touse, -le
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tou·sle   (tou'zəl, -səl)   
tr.v.   tou·sled, tou·sling, tou·sles
To disarrange or rumple; dishevel.
n.  A disheveled mass, as of hair.

[Middle English touselen, frequentative of tousen, to pull roughly.]
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