Meanings
comparative more tousle-haired · superlative most tousle-haired
- Having unkempt hair.
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.
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Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLCSynonyms: tousle-headed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving unkempt hair.
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