different between bedraggled vs tousle

English

Etymology

bedraggle +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?æ?l?d/
• Hyphenation: be?drag?gled

Adjective

bedraggled (comparative more bedraggled, superlative most bedraggled)

1. Wet and limp; unkempt.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, “The Chase.—Third Day.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 30847311; republished as Moby Dick or The White Whale (Famous Sea Stories), Boston, Mass.: The St. Botolph Society, 53 Beacon Street, 1892 (8th printing, February 1922), OCLC 237074, page 527:

     A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.

2. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

Synonyms

• (decaying, decrepit or dilapidated): See Thesaurus:ramshackle

Derived terms

• bedraggledly
• bedraggledness

Related terms

• bedraggle
• draggled
• draggle-tail
• draggle-tailed

Translations

Verb

bedraggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.

English

Alternative forms

• touzle, toozle, tussle

Etymology

From Middle English touselen, equivalent to touse +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?.z?l/
  • (US, also) IPA^(key): /?ta?.s?l/
• Rhymes: -a?z?l

Verb

tousle (third-person singular simple present tousles, present participle tousling, simple past and past participle tousled)

1. To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

Noun

tousle (plural tousles)

1. The action of ruffling or setting in disorder.
   • 2015, Carla Cassidy, A Real Cowboy (page 264)

     Cassie reached over and gave Sammy's dark hair a tousle.

Anagrams

• lutose, solute, tousel