touse

Etymology

From Middle English tosen, from Old English *tāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisan. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).

verb

  1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle.
  2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
    How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover? 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis

noun

  1. a noisy disturbance

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