mousle

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verb

To play with, or fondle roughly

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verbmousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)

present singular third person mousles · participle present mousling · participle past mousled · past mousled · alternative mouzle

  1. archaictransitiveTo play with, or fondle roughly

    Why, he put the tip of his tongue between my lips, and ſo muſl'd me—and I ſaid, I'd bite it.

    1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 41
  2. to rumple.

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