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tousle-headed

tousle-headed adjective: having unkempt hair.

Adjective

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

  1. Having unkempt hair.
    • Goren: a native Jerusalemite, a tousle-headed intellectual with the watery blue eyes of a dreamer, and a Jew.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
    Synonyms:
    tousle-haired

Synonyms of tousle-headed

Forms of tousle-headed

comparativemore tousle-headed
superlativemost tousle-headed

Origin of tousle-headed

From tousle + headed.

Questions about tousle-headed

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

Words near tousle-headed in the dictionary

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

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