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tousle-haired en · ADJ
Meanings
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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.
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Synonyms
tousle-headed