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   tousle

   /ˈtaʊzl/

   verb

   • 1. make (a person's hair) untidy: "I tousled his wispy silver hair"

   Word Origin 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.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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