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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tousel.

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Examples

  • A four- or five-year-old kid stands in front of me, with Kool-Aid lips and touseled hair.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • A four- or five-year-old kid stands in front of me, with Kool-Aid lips and touseled hair.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • A four- or five-year-old kid stands in front of me, with Kool-Aid lips and touseled hair.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • A four- or five-year-old kid stands in front of me, with Kool-Aid lips and touseled hair.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • A dozen touseled heads still and turn to the speaker.

    Dreamers’ Poetry Contest « UDreamOfJanie 2006

  • A red windbreaker over a hoody -- short, touseled brown alter-boy cut hair.

    overtaken Diary Entry overtaken 2003

  • Stormy-eyed, she ran a hand through her touseled, light brown curls.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • Her shoulder-length hair was a pale shade of blond, all touseled and mussed.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • Stormy-eyed, she ran a hand through her touseled, light brown curls.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • But her senses were picking up other messages—the slight pressure of his body making contact against her length, the warmth of his breath stirring the touseled, tawny curls of her short hair, and the spicy scent drifting from his smoothly shaven cheeks.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

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