tussle

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  1. intransitive verb To struggle roughly; scuffle.
  2. noun A rough or vigorous struggle; a scuffle.

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  • In the tussle, the cage broke, and all our birds rose in a flock to disappear. —  Legends II
  • We had quite a tussle, and got some kind of glowing stuff on us somehow. —  029 - Quest of Qui
  • While the noisemakers were healthy enough specimens that they might have given the Legionnaires a run for their money in a one-to-one tussle, the company had them outnumbered sufficiently that it would have been an easy matter to simply overwhelm them and toss them out onto the street...and serious consideration was being given to doing just that. —  Phule 01 - Phules Company
  • On that Saturday night when Charles was thus prudently gathering strength for the final tussle, the people of Liege also indulged in repose, counting on Sunday being a day of rest, that is, the major part of the burgher folk did within city limits. —  Charles the Bold
  • During our love-tussle, I vaguely noticed that Faustina Chambliss's fingers never stopped on the keyboard of her machine, nor did her pleased exclamations. —  FSF,May2008
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scuffle ·  shove ·  scrimmage ·  cannonade ·  altercation ·  infighting ·  nudge ·  melee ·  skirmish ·  hurly-burly

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tussle:   tussled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tussillen, frequentative of -tousen, to pull roughly.

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  1. Formerly also tussel; a variant, with shortened vowel, of tousle: see tousle.
  2. from tussle, n.
 

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