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English
Etymology
From Middle English tosen, from Old English *tāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisan. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).
Verb
touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)
- (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
- (transitive) To pull to pieces.
c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: , London: E P for Henry Seile, , published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39:His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
- 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
- How did he like it when the live creatures
- Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
- And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
- Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
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Noun
touse (plural touses)
- a noisy disturbance
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