tousle (redirected from tousling)

tou·sle  (touzl, -sl)

tr.v. tou·sled, tou·sling, tou·sles

To disarrange or rumple; dishevel.

n.

A disheveled mass, as of hair.

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[Middle English touselen, frequentative of tousen, to pull roughly.]

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tousle [rhymes with arousal]

Verb

[-sling, -sled] to make (hair or clothes) ruffled and untidy [Low German tūsen to shake]

tousled adj

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

tousle - disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair" dishevel, tangle disarrange - destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"