Tousle vs Hustle - What's the difference?
tousle | hustle |
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
To rush or hurry.
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To con or deceive; especially financially.
To bundle, to stow something quickly.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
To sell sex, to work as a pimp.
To be a prostitute, to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
(informal) To put a lot of effort into one's work.
To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle.
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As verbs the difference between tousle and hustle
is that tousle is to put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss while hustle is to rush or hurry.As a noun hustle is
a state of busy activity.tousle
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Alternative forms
* touzle, toozle, tussleVerb
Anagrams
*hustle
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Verb
- I'll have to hustle to get there on time.
- Men in dairy lunches were hustling' to gulp down the food which cooks had ' hustled to fry
- The guy tried to hustle me into buying into a bogus real estate deal.
- There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.