tousle-haired

tousle-haired (comparative more tousle-haired, superlative most tousle-haired)

1. Having unkempt hair.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:

     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.

• tousle-headed