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tousle-haired

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Having unkempt hair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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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