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单词 tousle
释义

touslen.

Brit. /ˈtaʊzl/, U.S. /ˈtaʊzəl/
Forms: Also †touzle.
Etymology: < tousle v.
1. A struggle, a tussle; a rough romping with a woman. Scottish.
ΚΠ
1788 R. Galloway Poems 214 For tho' I be baith blyth and canty, I ne'er get a touzle at a'.
1814 J. Boswell Justiciary Opera (1816) 11 A chield had taen a glass, and had A towzle wi' a gauger.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. vii. vi. 65 Ye're no a pin the worse of all the bit touzle.
2. A tousled mass or mop (of hair).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick
bush1509
hair-bush1580
bush-heada1603
shag1607
fella1616
mop1616
bush-hair1692
hassock1754
mopheada1816
shock-head1817
shock1819
flock-hair1878
tousle1880
1880 Daily Tel. 26 Nov. The eyes peeping out from under the overshadowing touzle, like young birds through a hedge.
1887 ‘F. Warden’ Scheherazade ii The thick tousle of hair..was entirely innocent of curling tongs.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as tousle-haired, tousle-headed adjs.; touslehead.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having
shaggeda1000
roughOE
thick-hairedc1405
busheda1513
bush-haired1530
maned1530
bush-headed1552
shack-haired1555
mop-headed?1566
shag-haired1577
shag-hair1584
shaggyc1590
rug-headed1597
hirsute1621
hobby-headeda1625
shock1681
shocky1698
shock-head1842
tousled-headed1860
tousle-haired1880
flock-headed1891
thick-piled1976
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick > person having
touslehead1900
Struwwelpeter1909
1880 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 136 A couple of bare-armed touzle-headed viragoes.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/1 Cattle of all kinds... Touzle-haired, tawny Highlanders with great sweeping horns, polled Galloways with coats like black astrachan.
1900 M. Hewlett Life & Death Richard Yea-and-Nay ii. xi. 364 The townsmen of Gratz, hoarse-voiced touzle~heads mostly, divined her to be an anchoress.
1981 Sunday Express Mag. 7 June 12/1 The breathlessness of a touslehead at a school concert.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

tousletouzlev.

Brit. /ˈtaʊz(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈtaʊz(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈtʌʊz(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English, 1700s tousel, (Middle English Scottish towsill, 1600s towsell, 1800s towsel), 1500s– tousle; 1600s– touzle, (1700s–1800s towzle, 1800s towzel, Scottish and northern toozle).
Etymology: Iterative of touse v.: see -le suffix 3. Compare Low German tûseln ( Brem. Wbch.); Oberd. zusseln, züsseln (Doornkaat-Koolman).
1.
a. transitive. To pull about roughly; to handle (esp. a woman) rudely or indelicately; to disorder, dishevel (the hair, clothes, etc.); = touse v. 1a, 1c, 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > make untidy [verb (transitive)] > tousle or rumple
touslea1440
frumplea1529
ruffle1530
rouzle1582
touse1598
rumple1714
wisp1823
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push or pull about roughly
to-push13..
manhandlea1470
tussle?a1500
touse1509
rouzle1582
touslea1585
turmoil1588
jostle1602
grabble1684
swig1684
shovel1816
tousle1816
to push (someone) around1900
scruff1926
the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > handle rudely or indelicately
ruffle1607
mouse1608
touse1624
mousle1664
tumble1715
tousle1839
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > assault sexually
abuse1447
rouze1582
touse1624
tousle1839
molest1902
interfere1948
a1440 Sir Degrev. 1492 Fayre schetus of sylk..Quyltus poyned of that ylk Touseled they ware.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 434 For to towsill me or tit me, thocht foull be my clais, Or I be dantit on sic wyse, my lyfe salbe lorne.
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 362 Tousled and tuggled with towne tykes.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E7v His rugg'd flowing mane, Which the fierce winds do tosse and tousell sore.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. i I have towzled his harigalds a wee!
1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 21 Come, Jane, give me my wig; you slut, how you have tousled the curls?
1839 W. Irving Legend of Communipaw in Knickerbocker Oct. 346 [He] kissed and tousled the young vrouws.
1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 464/1 Romping with the dogs, tousling a big St. Bernard.
b. With about, out, up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push or pull about roughly
to-push13..
manhandlea1470
tussle?a1500
touse1509
rouzle1582
touslea1585
turmoil1588
jostle1602
grabble1684
swig1684
shovel1816
tousle1816
to push (someone) around1900
scruff1926
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 201 After they had touzled out mony a leather poke-full o' papers.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxxviii Mrs. Hannah..being tossed and tousled about by the crowd.
1883 Mem. S. Miller Pref. 20 [She] requested us..if she should be drowsy to be sure and ‘touzle’ her up.
c. figurative. = touse v. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 784 Hoo your e'en sparkle as you touzle the clergy.
1900 A. J. C. Hare Story of my Life VI. xxv. 188 Religion worried and touzled by a thousand million vagaries of personality.
2. intransitive. To toss oneself about; also, to rout, rummage (cf. touse v. 5).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > roll or tumble about > of persons or animals
wallowc900
welter?a1400
rollc1405
wamblec1420
rumble?1516
tolter1529
shake1538
worblea1599
flounder1735
tousle1852
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xxxvii Tom Loker we left groaning and touzling in a..clean Quaker bed.
1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah II. ix. 156 Do you think she is to come here toozling about among the wittles in her best gown?

Derivatives

ˈtousling n. (also ˈtouzling)
ΚΠ
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xii. 281 D—n me if he shan't ha the tousling her. View more context for this quotation
1771 E. Long Trial of Carter's Dog in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 202 Tearings, woundings, pullings,..touzleings,..maliciously inflicted.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 284 What tugging and touzling, and pinching and pulling at the tail he [a dog] will take.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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