# touse

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To rumple, tousle.
2. To pull to pieces.

## Etymology
From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.
(a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/touse