"towzy" meaning in English

See towzy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: towzier [comparative], towziest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|towzier}} towzy (comparative towzier, superlative towziest)
  1. (Scotland) Shaggy and unkempt. Tags: Scotland

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 370:",
          "text": "The waiter rolled his bloodshot eyes and scratched his towzy head.",
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        {
          "ref": "1890, James Russell Lowell, The Works of James Russell Lowell, page 342:",
          "text": "There sat Auld Nick in shape o' beast, A towzy tyke, black, grim, an' large, To gie them music with his charge.",
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          "ref": "1892, J. Wilson McLaren, “John Bremnar”, in Scots Poems and Ballants, page 113:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert, “The Author's Address to his Auld Dog Hector”, in The Mountain Bard, page 110:",
          "text": "Come, my auld, towzy, trusty friend; What gars ye look sae douth an' wae?",
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