mousle
English
Alternative forms
- mouzle
Verb
mousle (third-person singular simple present mousles, present participle mousling, simple past and past participle mousled)
- (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.
- to rumple.
References
- “mousle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.