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towze

towze is the alternative spelling of touse.

Meaning of touse

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

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Forms of towze

third-person singular presenttowzes
present participletowzing
past participletowzed
pasttowzed

Questions about towze

What is towze the alternative spelling of?
Towze is the alternative spelling of touse.

Words near towze in the dictionary

  1. Towton
  2. towtruck
  3. towtrucks
  4. towy
  5. Towyn
  6. towze
  7. towzed
  8. towzer
  9. towzers
  10. towzery gang
  11. towzery gangs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: towze (page history and authors); touse (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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