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touzle

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tou⋅zle

  [tou-zuhl] verb (used with object), -zled, -zling, noun
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tousle.

tou⋅sle

  [tou-zuhl] verb, -sled, -sling, noun
–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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Word Origin & History

tousle 
"pull roughly, disorder, dishevel," c.1440, freq. of -tousen "handle or push about roughly," from O.E. *tusian, from P.Gmc. *tus- (cf. Fris. tusen, O.H.G. erzusen, Ger. zausen "to tug, pull, dishevel"); related to tease.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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