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.Want to learn more?
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