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towzy

towzy adjective: shaggy and unkempt.

Adjective

towzy (comparative towzier, superlative towziest)

  1. (Scotland) Shaggy and unkempt.
    • The waiter rolled his bloodshot eyes and scratched his towzy head.1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 370
    • There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast, A towzy tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music with his charge.1890, James Russell Lowell, The Works of James Russell Lowell, page 342

Examples of towzy in a sentence

  • His pow is towzy, and his eyes ne'er lack Deep sympathy; voluminous his crack, and connoisseur of quaintest bric-a-brac.1892, J. Wilson McLaren, “John Bremnar”, in Scots Poems and Ballants, page 113:
  • Come, my auld, towzy, trusty friend; What gars ye look sae douth an' wae?2007, James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert, “The Author's Address to his Auld Dog Hector”, in The Mountain Bard, page 110:

Forms of towzy

comparativetowzier
superlativetowziest

Questions about towzy

What does towzy mean?
Towzy means shaggy and unkempt.
How do you use towzy in a sentence?
His pow is towzy, and his eyes ne'er lack Deep sympathy; voluminous his crack, and connoisseur of quaintest bric-a-brac.
What part of speech is towzy?
Towzy is an adjective.

Words near towzy in the dictionary

  1. towzing
  2. towzle
  3. towzled
  4. towzles
  5. towzling
  6. towzy
  7. tox
  8. tox-
  9. toxaemia
  10. toxaemia of pregnancy
  11. toxaemias

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