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touse

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From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.

(a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

verb touses · tousing · toused · towze

  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; […]

noun touses · towze

  1. a noisy disturbance

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"touse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/touse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{touse_2026,
  title = {touse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/touse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}