tousle

verb
🔊/ˈtaʊzl/
🔊/ˈtaʊzl/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they tousle
🔊/ˈtaʊzl/
🔊/ˈtaʊzl/
he / she / it tousles
🔊/ˈtaʊzlz/
🔊/ˈtaʊzlz/
past simple tousled
🔊/ˈtaʊzld/
🔊/ˈtaʊzld/
past participle tousled
🔊/ˈtaʊzld/
🔊/ˈtaʊzld/
-ing form tousling
🔊/ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/
🔊/ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/
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  1. tousle something to make somebody’s hair untidy弄乱(头发);使蓬乱Topics Appearancec2
    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘handle roughly or rudely’): frequentative of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’, of Germanic origin and related to German zausen. Compare with tussle.