What does tousle-haired mean?

tousle-haired

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

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"Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door."
"1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170, Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan."

more tousle-haired (comparative) most tousle-haired (superlative)

tousle-headed

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