Tousle vs Rumble - What's the difference?
tousle | rumble |
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
* Charles Dickens
To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
To move while making a rumbling noise.
(slang) To fight; to brawl.
To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between tousle and rumble
is that tousle is to put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss while rumble is to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.As an interjection rumble is
an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.As a noun rumble is
a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.tousle
English
Alternative forms
* touzle, toozle, tussleVerb
Anagrams
*rumble
English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.
Verb
(en-verb)- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- to rumble gently down with murmur soft