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tousle

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++tou·sle /ˈtaʊzəl/ verb [transitive]  DCto make someone’s hair look untidy 弄乱〔头发〕→ See Verb table
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tousleShe was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled.His hair was all tousled, a scarf round his neck, touching his braces.Two great tousled blonde manes with platinum highlights.Springing up, she smoothed back her tousled hair and hurriedly unbolted the door to Bethany smiling at her.He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.Under the tousle of thick blond hair, he looks like a small child again.Her hair, which Polly had thought a mess, might also have been described as gloriously tousled, ravishingly unkempt.It would have been too similar to the accompanying picture featuring a slightly tousled Stafford kissing Celestine.
Origin tousle (1400-1500) touse to pull roughly ((14-19 centuries))
tou·sle verbChineseSyllable
look untidy Corpus to someone’s hair make


tousle
tousle /ˈtaʊzəl/ verb [transitive]
 Date: 1400-1500
 Origin: touse 'to pull roughly' (14-19 centuries)
to make someone’s hair look untidy


tou·sleBrE /ˈtaʊzl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtaʊzl/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they tousle BrE /ˈtaʊzl/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈtaʊzl/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it tousles BrE /ˈtaʊzlz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈtaʊzlz/ 🔊past simple tousled BrE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊past participle tousled BrE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊 -ing form tousling BrE /ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/ 🔊 [usually passive] ~ sth to make sb's hair untidy 弄乱(头发);使蓬乱 tou·sled BrE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtaʊzld/ 🔊 adjectivea boy with blue eyes and tousled hair头发蓬乱的蓝眼睛男孩