tussle
verb/ˈtʌsl/
/ˈtʌsl/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tussle | /ˈtʌsl/ /ˈtʌsl/ |
| he / she / it tussles | /ˈtʌslz/ /ˈtʌslz/ |
| past simple tussled | /ˈtʌsld/ /ˈtʌsld/ |
| past participle tussled | /ˈtʌsld/ /ˈtʌsld/ |
| -ing form tussling | /ˈtʌslɪŋ/ /ˈtʌslɪŋ/ |
- tussle (with somebody/something) to fight or compete with somebody/something, especially in order to get something
- The children were tussling with one another for the ball.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb, originally Scots and northern English): perhaps a diminutive of dialect touse ‘handle roughly’ of Germanic origin and related to German zausen.Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
tussle