TOUSLE


Meaning of TOUSLE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

tousled especially literary (= a little untidy, in a way that looks attractive )

his youthfully handsome face and tousled hair that hung untidily over his collar

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

hair

She was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled .

His eyes were ice-blue, his hair soft and tousled brown, his mustache immaculately trimmed.

His hair was all tousled , a scarf round his neck, touching his braces.

His tie was pulled loose, his shirt unbuttoned, and his hair was tousled .

By Sloanes For Hair Sexy long, blonde hair has been tousled with styling mousse.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.

Her hair, which Polly had thought a mess, might also have been described as gloriously tousled, ravishingly unkempt.

His hair was all tousled, a scarf round his neck, touching his braces.

It would have been too similar to the accompanying picture featuring a slightly tousled Stafford kissing Celestine.

She was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled.

Springing up, she smoothed back her tousled hair and hurriedly unbolted the door to Bethany smiling at her.

Two great tousled blonde manes with platinum highlights.

Under the tousle of thick blond hair, he looks like a small child again.

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