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English

Etymology

From French toise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??z/

Noun

toise (plural toises)

1. (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.

Anagrams

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

Etymology 1

From Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin t?nsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tend? (“stretch”).

Noun

toise f (plural toises)

1. toise
2. height gauge

Derived terms

• toiser

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

toise

1. first-person singular present indicative of toiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of toiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
5. second-person singular imperative of toiser

Anagrams

• ostie

Further reading

• “toise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Alternative forms

• tois

Etymology

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Noun

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

1. Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
2. size, measure, measurement
3. dimension

Declension

Derived terms

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

Mutation

Further reading

• "toise" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “toise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “toise” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

English

Etymology

From Middle English tosen. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).

Verb

touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)

1. (transitive) To rumple, tousle
2. (transitive) To pull to pieces.
   • 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:

     How did he like it when the live creatures

     Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,

     And worm, slug, eft, with serious features

     Came in, each one, for his right of trover?

Noun

touse (plural touses)

1. a noisy disturbance

Anagrams

• use to