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tousle-haired

tousle-haired adjective: having unkempt hair.

Adjective

tousle-haired (comparative more tousle-haired, superlative most tousle-haired)

  1. Having unkempt hair.
    • Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC
    • Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan.1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170
    Synonyms:
    tousle-headed

Synonyms of tousle-haired

Forms of tousle-haired

comparativemore tousle-haired
superlativemost tousle-haired

Questions about tousle-haired

What does tousle-haired mean?
Tousle-haired means having unkempt hair.
What part of speech is tousle-haired?
Tousle-haired is an adjective.

Words near tousle-haired in the dictionary

  1. touses
  2. Tousignant
  3. Tousignants
  4. tousing
  5. tousle
  6. tousle-haired
  7. tousle-headed
  8. tousled
  9. touslement
  10. tousler
  11. touslers

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