touze

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

1. (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?

• “touze”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtou̯zɛ]

touze f

1. dative/locative singular of touha