touse

Plural: touses

Verb

Verb Forms: toused, tousing, touses

To disarrange or rumple, especially hair or clothing; to tousle.
To rumple, tousle.
To pull to pieces.

Noun

a noisy disturbance

Examples

He’d often TOUSE his hair in frustration when a high-scoring word eluded him.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English tosen, from Old English *tāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *taisan. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).

Scrabble Score: 5

touse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
touse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
touse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

touse: valid Words With Friends Word