tousled

English

Adjective

tousled (comparative more tousled, superlative most tousled)

1. Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎^[1]:

     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.

Alternative forms

• touzled

Translations

of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt

• Armenian: խռիվ (hy) (xṙiv)
• Czech: rozcuchaný, rozčepýřený, rozježený
• French: en bataille (fr)
• Georgian: თმააბურძგნული (tmaaburʒgnuli), თმაგაბურძგნული (tmagaburʒgnuli), თავდაუვარცხნელი (tavdauvarcxneli), თავგაწეწილი (tavgac̣ec̣ili), თმაგაჩეჩილი (tmagačečili), თმაგაძეძილი (tmagaʒeʒili), აბურდული (aburduli), აჩეჩილი (ačečili), გაჩეჩილი (gačečili), აწეწილი (ac̣ec̣ili), აწეწილ-დაწეწილი (ac̣ec̣il-dac̣ec̣ili), აბურძგნული (aburʒgnuli), გაბურძგნული (gaburʒgnuli), დაუვარცხნელი (dauvarcxneli)
• German: zerzaust (de), verstrubbelt (de), strubbelig, durcheinandergebracht (de)
• Irish: gliobach
• Maori: mirara
• Serbo-Croatian: razbarušen (sh) m
• Swedish: rufsig (sv)

Verb

tousled

1. simple past and past participle of tousle

Anagrams

• loudest, ouldest, soluted