touze

See also: touže

English

Verb

touze (third-person singular simple present touzes, present participle touzing, simple past and past participle touzed)

(UK, dialect) 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?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for touze in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtou̯zɛ]

Noun

touze f

dative/locative singular of touha

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