[
US
/ˈtəsəɫ/
]
[ UK /tˈʌsəl/ ]
[ UK /tˈʌsəl/ ]
VERB
-
make messy or untidy
the child mussed up my hair -
fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
the drunken men started to scuffle
NOUN
- disorderly fighting
How To Use tussle In A Sentence
- It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
- Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
- Avila, who in May tussled with bloodmobile workers who had parked in front of the Health and Welfare Building, apparently impinging on Avila's designated space. PhillyDeals
- With muffled thuds and a yelp, Ace and the thief tussled on the floor.
- And, oh, the playacting, the tussles for territory, the acts of intellectual vaudeville that ensue. Times, Sunday Times
- And on television bulletins, viewers were first treated to how England rugby union had caned Canada which was about as exciting a tussle as Chelsea taking on Chertsey in football.
- A tussle with an eel is a sight to behold. Times, Sunday Times
- There was a legal tussle over the closure of the hospital.
- Anna and her conscience had a little tussle.
- During his twelve years in Congress he has tussled with the chemical, drug and power companies on behalf of the ordinary person's right to breathe clean air.