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tousling

tousling is the present participle and gerund of tousle.

Meaning of tousle

Verb

tousle (third-person singular simple present tousles, present participle tousling, simple past and past participle tousled)

  1. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

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Noun

tousling (countable and uncountable, plural touslings)

  1. The act of something being tousled.
    • For a guy like Lucky what that really meant was that he missed Bob, missed his tutelage, even missed those annoying hair touslings.2023, Joe Spano, Quagmire

Forms of tousling

pluraltouslings

Questions about tousling

What does tousling mean?
Tousling means the act of something being tousled.
What is tousling the present participle and gerund of?
Tousling is the present participle and gerund of tousle.
What part of speech is tousling?
Tousling is a noun.
What is the plural of tousling?
The plural of tousling is touslings.

Words near tousling in the dictionary

  1. tousler
  2. touslers
  3. tousles
  4. Tousley
  5. Tousleys
  6. tousling
  7. touslings
  8. tously
  9. Toussant
  10. Toussie
  11. Toussies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tousling (page history and authors); tousle (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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