tussle
pronunciation
How to pronounce tussle in British English:
UK [ˈtʌsl]
How to pronounce tussle in American English:
US [ˈtʌsəl]
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- Noun:
- disorderly fighting
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- Verb:
- fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
- make messy or untidy
Word Origin
- tussle
- tussle: see tousle
- tussle (v.)
- "to struggle, scuffle, wrestle confusedly," late 15c. (transitive); 1630s (intransitive), Scottish and northern English variant of touselen (see tousle). Related: Tussled; tussling.
- tussle (n.)
- "a struggle, conflict, scuffle," 1620s (but rare before 19c.), from tussle (v.).
Example
- 1. The tussle echoes bigger battles .
- 2. The tussle , standard fare by western media standards , is unusual in china .
- 3. But it has obscured something arguably just as important : a tussle over one of asia 's most strategic states .
- 4. The tussle is a window into the white house 's delicate balancing act in the middle east .
- 5. After a tussle between chinese and vietnamese boats , china demanded that vietnam halt its exploration for oil around the spratly islands .