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What (who) is tousle - definition
tousle
['ta?z(?)l]
¦ verb [usu. as adjective tousled] make (something, especially a person's hair) untidy.
Origin
ME: frequentative of dialect touse 'handle roughly', of Gmc origin; cf. tussle.
tousled
adjective make (something, especially a person's hair) untidy.
Examples of use of tousle
1. The cover shows two tousle–haired hunks in woolly jumpers reading a book together.
2. Surfing‘s tousle–haired, testosterone–fuelled underbelly has been mass marketed out of existence.
3. While diffusing, he uses his fingers to tousle hair instead of a round brush, which can straighten.
4. Reading stiffly from a piece of paper, the tousle–haired Planche, who looked healthy but tired, said he would do so as soon as possible.
5. Flip your hair under the hand dryer and tousle with your fingers for a quickie blow dry that pumps up the volume!