tousle
verb
[ ˈtaʊz(ə)l ]
• make (a person's hair) untidy.
• "I tousled his wispy silver hair"
Similar:
untidy,
messy,
unkempt,
disordered,
disarranged,
messed up,
rumpled,
dishevelled,
bedraggled,
uncombed,
ungroomed,
ruffled,
tangled,
matted,
windblown,
wild,
mussed up,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘handle roughly or rudely’): frequentative of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’, of Germanic origin and related to German zausen . Compare with tussle.
