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Meaning of tousle-haired | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Having unkempt hair.

Examples

“Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.”
“1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170, Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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