Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
a noisy disturbance
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo rumple, tousle. · To pull to pieces.
From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase. (a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).
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