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mousle

mousle verb: to play with, or fondle roughly.

Verb

mousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To play with, or fondle roughly
    • Why, he put the tip of his tongue between my lips, and ſo muſl'd me—and I ſaid, I'd bite it.1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […]...
  2. to rumple.

Forms of mousle

third-person singular presentmousles
present participlemousling
past participlemousled
pastmousled
alternative formmouzle

Questions about mousle

What does mousle mean?
Mousle means to play with, or fondle roughly.
What part of speech is mousle?
Mousle is a verb.
What is the past tense of mousle?
The past tense of mousle is mousled.

Words near mousle in the dictionary

  1. mousing hook
  2. mousing hooks
  3. mousing over
  4. mousingly
  5. mousings
  6. mousle
  7. mousled
  8. mousles
  9. Mousley
  10. mousling
  11. mousmé

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