touze
See also: touže
English
Verb
touze (third-person singular simple present touzes, present participle touzing, simple past and past participle touzed)
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) Alternative form of touse
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:
- As a bear, whom angry curs have touz'd.
- 1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 34:
- Oh the moſt inhumane, barbarous Hackney-Coach! I'm jolted to a Jelly—Am I not horribly touz'd?
References
- “touze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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