touse

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tosen. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle
  2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
    • 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?

Noun

touse (plural touses)

  1. a noisy disturbance

Anagrams

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