单词 | tousle |
释义 | touslen. 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. 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). < n.1788v.a1440 |
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