tousle
verb /ˈtaʊzl/
/ˈtaʊzl/
[usually passive]动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they tousle | /ˈtaʊzl/ /ˈtaʊzl/ |
he / she / it tousles | /ˈtaʊzlz/ /ˈtaʊzlz/ |
past simple tousled | /ˈtaʊzld/ /ˈtaʊzld/ |
past participle tousled | /ˈtaʊzld/ /ˈtaʊzld/ |
-ing form tousling | /ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/ /ˈtaʊzlɪŋ/ |
- tousle something to make somebody’s hair untidy
Topics Appearancec2弄乱(头发);使蓬乱 词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘handle roughly or rudely’): frequentative of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’, of Germanic origin and related to German zausen. Compare with tussle.