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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To disarrange or rumple; dishevel.
  2. n. A disheveled mass, as of hair.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pull about roughly; plague or tease good-naturedly by pulling about: as, to tousle the girls.
  2. To put into disorder, as by pulling about roughly: dishevel; rumple: as, to tousle one's hair.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. colloq. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. disarrange or rumple; dishevel.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English touselen, frequentative of tousen, to pull roughly. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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