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tissle, toosel, toosie, toosle, toosled, toosy, toozellt, toozie, toozle, toozlie, toozy, tossle, tossue, touse, touselt, tousie, tousle, tousled, touslie, touss, tousy, touze, touzelt, touzie, touzle, touzlie, towse, towsie, towsy, towzie, tussle, tusslie,
touse [tuːz]
v. To pull or knock about, treat or handle roughly.
 
tousie [ˈtuːzi]
adj. Disordered, dishevelled, rough.
 
tousle [ˈtuːzl]
n. A tussle.
v. To ruffle, dishevel, tussle, push or pull about. To scuffle with, treat roughly, bounce about.
pt. pp. touselt
 
touslie [ˈtuːzle]
n. A blustery wind.
adj. Dishevelled, ruffled, boisterous.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
tousle oot: To untangle.
toosek, toosk, tooski, tooski, tooskie, tooskie, tooskit, toosky, toosky, tousk, tousk, touskie, touskie, touskit, tousky, tousky, tusk, tuski, tuski, tuskie, tuskie, tuskit, tusky, tusky, tussen, tusset,
tousk [I.Sh. tusk]
n. A tuft of grass or hair. A mat or tangled mass of hair.
dim. touskie A nickname for a shaggy-headed person.
v. To rumple or tousle hair etc.
pt. pp. touskit adj. Of hair: in tufts, unkempt, dishevelled.
 
tousky
adj. Matted, tangled.
toosty, toustie,
toustie [ˈtusti]
adj. Testy, irascible.
too, tooin, toot, tooter, tooteroo, tooteroot, tootie, tootie, tooty, tou, tout, toute, touter, touterou, toutie, tu, tuitie, tut,
tout [tut]
also tou [I. tuː]
n. A toot etc.
dim. toutie
v. To blow on a horn etc.
 
toutie
adj. Sarcastic.
 
touter [-ər]
n. A horn or trumpet etc.
v. To blow on a horn etc. To gossip.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
touteroo: Any kind of wind instrument.
tauther, tautherie, tauthery, tawther, tawtherie, tawthery, tooder, tooderie, tooderie, toother, tootherie, tootherie, tothir, tothirie, tothiry, touther, toutherie, toutherie, towder, towderie, towdery, towther, towtherie, towthery, tudder, tudderie, tuddery, tuder, tuderie, tuderie, untautherlie, untautherly, untawtherlie, untawtherly, untooderlie, untooderly, untootherlie, untootherly, untothirlie, untothirly, untoutherlie, untoutherly, untowderlie, untowderlie, untowderly, untowtherlie, untowtherly, untudderlie, untudderly, untuderlie, untuderly,
touther [ˈtuðər, NEC. ˈtʌuðər, I.Sh. ˈtudər, ˈtʌudər]
also arch. MN. touder [ˈtudər]
n. A state of disorder or dishevelment. A mess.
v. To handle roughly, throw into disorder.
 
toutherie
adj. Dishevelled, untidy, slovenly.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
untoutherly [ənˈtuðərlɪ, ənˈtʌuðərlɪ], untouderly [ənˈtudərlɪ, ˈəntʌudərlɪ]: adj. Big, clumsy and unwieldy, ill-shaped, badly-put-together. Slovenly in dress or figure, unkempt, dishevelled.
toave, toaver, toavie, toavy, tove, toved, tover, tovie, tovit, tovy, tuive,
tove [toːv]
v. To talk in a friendly, animated and prolix way. To gossip, chat, brag. Of a fire etc.: to emit smoke or flames etc. to issue in a cloud, to billow out. To rise in the air. To burn or blaze up. To rise into the air, to spiral upwards, to soar. To move at speed, hurry along, puff on. To issue in a dense mass, to swarm or stream out. To cause to swell or rise.
pt. pp. toved
 
tovie [toːve]
adj. Friendly, animated, gossipy, chatty. Self-important, boastful.
 
tover [ˈtoːvər]
v. To boast, brag.
lowrie-tow, lowrie-towe, toun, touw, touwed, tow, towd, towe, towe$t, towed, towe-heidit, towen, towes, towes_man, towesman, towesman, towes-man, tow-heidit, towie, towin, town, tows, towsman,
towe [tʌu]
n. A rope, cord, length of strong twine or string etc. Flax or hemp fibre.
dim. towie
v. To pull with a rope. To raise or lower by means of a rope.
pt. pp. towed
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
lowrie-towe [I.Sh. ˈlʌuri-]: A rope by which something may be dragged.
towe-heidit: Fair-haired.
towesman: The crew member who manages the sails and halyards on a boat.
towin [ˈtʌu(ɪ)n]: To beat, belabour, subdue, tame by beating, tire, weary out, toss or rumple, throw into disorder.
toll, tollie, towelie, towl, towlie, towly,
towl [ˈtʌul]
n. A toll. A checkpoint on a turnpike road where tolls were collected, a toll-bar.
dim. towlie A turnpike-keeper.
toll, tow, towe, towl,
towl [tʌul]
n. The toll of a bell.
towmon, towmond, towmont, towmont, towmonth,
towmond [ˈtʌumən(d), ˈto-, -mənθ]
n. A period of twelve months, a year. A sheep or wether in its second year.

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