What does tousle-haired mean?
Tousle-haired means Having unkempt hair..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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.
Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.
Use tousle-haired when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tousle-haired means Having unkempt hair..
Common synonyms include tousle-headed.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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