As verbs the difference between bedraggled and tousle
is that
bedraggled is (
bedraggle) while
tousle is to put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
As an adjective bedraggled
is wet and limp; unkempt.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
bedraggled English
Adjective
( en adjective)
wet and limp; unkempt
decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
* 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
- She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
Derived terms
* bedraggledly
* bedraggledness
Verb
(head)
(bedraggle)
|
tousle English
Alternative forms
* touzle, toozle, tussle
Verb
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
Anagrams
*
|
