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touse

touse verb: to rumple, tousle.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
  2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
    • His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 39
    • 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?1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis

Noun

touse (plural touses)

  1. a noisy disturbance

touse meaning in Tamil

touse in Tamil

பெய், வழங்கு, போடு, பரிமாறு

Forms of touse

Verb
third-person singular presenttouses
present participletousing
past participletoused
pasttoused
alternative formtowze
Noun
pluraltouses

Origin of touse

From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

Words formed from touse

Questions about touse

What does touse mean?
Touse means to rumple, tousle.
What is touse in Tamil?
Touse in Tamil is பெய், வழங்கு, போடு. See Touse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is touse?
Touse can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of touse?
The past tense of touse is toused.

Words near touse in the dictionary

  1. Toury
  2. tous-les-mois
  3. tous-les-mois starch
  4. tousche
  5. tousches
  6. touse
  7. toused
  8. tousel
  9. touseled
  10. touseling
  11. touselled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touse (page history and authors); touse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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