tousle-hairedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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, London: Jonathan Cape, page 326:

     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.