Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

touse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: tou-se
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To rumple, tousle.

Transitive verb

verb

To pull to pieces.

Transitive verb

noun

a noisy disturbance

Example Sentences

"His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]"
"How did he like it when the live creatures Tickled and toused and browsed him all over, And worm, slug, eft, with serious features Came in, each one, for his right of trover?"

Etymology

From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tousen, *tūsian, *tūsōn

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

touses (present, singular) tousing (participle, present) toused (participle, past) toused (past) towze (alternative) touses (plural)

Derived Forms

touser tousle tousy

Questions

What does touse mean?: To rumple, tousle.
Where does touse come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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