tousle-haired

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English

Adjective

tousle-haired (comparative more tousle-haired, superlative most tousle-haired)

  1. Having unkempt hair.
    • 1922, E. R. Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros‎:
      Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.
    • 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170,
      Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan.

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