TOUSE

Etymology

Verb

touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)

(transitive) To rumple, tousle

(transitive) To pull to pieces.

Noun

touse (plural touses)

a noisy disturbance

Anagrams

• use to

Source: Wiktionary


Touse, Touze, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused; p. pr. & vb. n. Tousing.] Etym: [OE. tosen sq. root64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ]

Definition: To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

Touse, n.

Definition: A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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