Touse

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a noisy disturbance
Verb
  1. 1
    To rumple, tousle. transitive
  2. 2
    To pull to pieces. transitive

    "His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]"

Synonyms

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tumble

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"His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]"

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)).

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