tousle
Speech parts
1. tousle - Noun
2. tousle - Verb
Meaning
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
tangle
dishevel
ravel
rumple
break
disorder
upset
hash
disrupt
confuse
scatter
litter
mess
displace
disturb
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
The strong wind tousled my hair