mousle

English

Alternative forms

• mouzle

Verb

mousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To play with, or fondle roughly
   • 1675, [William] Wycherley, The Country-wife, a Comedy, […], London: Printed for Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC; republished London: Printed for T[homas] Dring, and sold by R. Bentley, and S. Magnes […], 1688, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 41:

     Why, he put the tip of his tongue between my lips, and ſo muſl'd me—and I ſaid, I'd bite it.

2. to rumple.

References

• “mousle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mesuol, oleums, somule