tousled en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈtaʊ.səld/ (also, proscribed)
- /ˈtaʊ.zəld/
- /ˈtus.əld/ (also, proscribed, rare)
- /ˈtɔs.əld/ (also, proscribed)
- /ˈtʌs.əld/ (also, proscribed)
Meanings
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Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “‘Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears’”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 261:An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.
1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| touzled | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more tousled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most tousled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (27)
sv rufsig (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თმააბურძგნული (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka აწეწილ-დაწეწილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka აბურდული (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · fr en bataille (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka გაბურძგნული (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka აჩეჩილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · cs rozcuchaný (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თავდაუვარცხნელი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · cs rozježený (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka აბურძგნული (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · cs rozčepýřený (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თმაგაძეძილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თავგაწეწილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · de strubbelig (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka გაჩეჩილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ga gliobach (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · de zerzaust (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka აწეწილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თმაგაჩეჩილი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · de verstrubbelt (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · hy խռիվ (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka დაუვარცხნელი (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · de durcheinandergebracht (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · sh razbarušen (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · mi mirara (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt) · ka თმაგაბურძგნული (of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt)