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tousle-haired en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having unkempt hair.
    • Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
    • 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.

Forms

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more tousle-haired Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most tousle-haired Degree=Sup lexicographic

Synonyms

tousle-headed