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1. A struggle, a tussle; a rough romping with a woman. Sc.
1788. R. Galloway, Poems, 214. For tho’ I be baith blyth and canty, I ne’er get a touzle at a’.
1814. J. Boswell, Justiciary Op. (1816), 11. A chield had taen a glass, and had A towzle wi’ a gauger.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., VII. vi. Ye’re no’ a pin the worse of all the bit touzle.
2. A tousled mass or mop (of hair).
1880. Daily Tel., 26 Nov. The eyes peeping out from under the overshadowing touzle, like young birds through a hedge.
1887. Flo. Warden, Scheherazade, ii. The thick tousle of hair … was entirely innocent of curling tongs.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tousle-haired, -headed adjs.
1880. Cornh. Mag., Feb., 136. A couple of bare-armed touzle-headed viragoes.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 8 Dec., 2/1. Cattle of all kinds…. Touzle-haired, tawny Highlanders with great sweeping horns, polled Galloways with coats like black astrachan.
