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Meanings of tousle in English

Portuguese
retorcer
Spanish
desgreñar

Disarrange or rumple; dishevel.

retorcer
Usage of tousle in English
1
Delacroix painted her as a kind of Gypsy fortune-teller, dark-eyed and tousle-haired.
The Guardian
2
Ben approaches the receptionist, a tousle-haired and frazzled-looking woman with visible bra-straps.
Breathe
3
I am married, married forever to that tousle-headed, bristle-jawed, brainless, heartless dub.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
4
A moment later, Lisa suddenly stooped down to tousle the boy's blond mane.
Petals from the sky
5
Liv reached to tousle them out, but he ducked away from her hand.
The whole world: a novel
6
Next to him sat Tuesday, the tousle-headed Gogol, a man more obviously mad.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
7
Almost unconsciously, she felt light air tousle her hair.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
8
The dark, tousle-haired boy with the wide-set green eyes never offered unless he was asked.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
9
His face and hands were wrinkled and spotted, his hair a disarrayed tousle of grey.
The Wise Man’s Fear
10
The Witch shook her head slowly, then reached out to tousle the rough, brindled hair.
The Sandman Book of Dreams
11
A pair of children in tow; tousle-haired girl around three, grim-faced boy of six or seven.
The Irish Times
12
He was about 12, tousle-haired, snotty-nosed and ruddy-cheeked.
The Irish Times
13
He reached down to tousle the kid's dark-blond hair as his sister answered her cell phone.
Afternoon delight
14
Brown, relaxed, bare-armed, tousle-haired and wearing long, peasant-type skirts and blouses they often go to work barefoot.
The South African
15
All of a sudden, I wonder who was supposed to tousle whom on this multiple moonlight walk.
Cities in Flight
16
She longed to see him grubby-fisted bare-footed, tousle-haired, shouting and wrestling with her young tykes of brothers.
Purple Springs
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Translations for tousle
Tousle through the time