different between tousle vs rumble

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

English

Alternative forms

• rummle, rommle (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome +? -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???mb(?)l/
• Rhymes: -?mb?l

Noun

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

   • Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

Translations

Verb

rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

2. (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

3. (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
4. (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
5. (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.

Translations

Interjection

rumble

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Anagrams

• Blumer, Bulmer, lumber, umbrel