English Explanatory Dictionary

touse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To rumple, tousle.
  2. To pull to pieces.
noun
  1. a noisy disturbance

Word forms

touse touses tousing toused towze

Etymology

From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

Derived words

touser tousle
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