"towzy" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "towzier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "towziest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "towzier"
      },
      "expansion": "towzy (comparative towzier, superlative towziest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 370",
          "text": "The waiter rolled his bloodshot eyes and scratched his towzy head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, J. Wilson McLaren, “John Bremnar”, in Scots Poems and Ballants, page 113",
          "text": "His pow is towzy, and his eyes ne'er lack Deep sympathy; voluminous his crack, and connoisseur of quaintest bric-a-brac.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shaggy and unkempt."
      ],
      "id": "en-towzy-en-adj-QL2vWL3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "Shaggy",
          "shaggy"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Shaggy and unkempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "towzy"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "towzier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "towziest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "towzier"
      },
      "expansion": "towzy (comparative towzier, superlative towziest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 370",
          "text": "The waiter rolled his bloodshot eyes and scratched his towzy head.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, J. Wilson McLaren, “John Bremnar”, in Scots Poems and Ballants, page 113",
          "text": "His pow is towzy, and his eyes ne'er lack Deep sympathy; voluminous his crack, and connoisseur of quaintest bric-a-brac.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Shaggy and unkempt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Shaggy",
          "shaggy"
        ],
        [
          "unkempt",
          "unkempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Shaggy and unkempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "towzy"
}