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# tousled

«tousled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (tousled); from the verb tousle (tousle, tousles, tousled, tousling)

### meaning for a pupil

Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks as if you have just woken up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A describing word for appearance in stories: a child with tousled hair just out of bed, a boy tousled by the wind. Grown-ups sometimes tousle a child's hair as a kind gesture.

### examples

- He came down to breakfast with tousled hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x1)
- The wind left her hair tousled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x2)
- Dad tousled my hair and smiled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x3)
- A tousled puppy jumped out of the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x4)
- She looked tousled after the long trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x5)
- His tousled curls stuck out everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/#x6)

### note

Mostly used about hair. Say TOW-zuld: the first part sounds like «cow». Similar: messy, ruffled, untidy.

### In the corpora

- [Badger arrives muddy and «rough and touzled» (untidy, tousled); «Welcome home, Toad!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/26/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tousled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tousled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.