Tussle

Definition: Tussle

Tussle

Noun

1. Disorderly fighting.

Verb

1. Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle".

2. Make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair".

3. Fight or wrestle in a vigorous way.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tussle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Synonyms: Tussle

Contention

Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel).

Shindy; fracas; (discord); clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment; velitation; colluctation, luctation; brabble, brigue, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting.

I don't know your feelings, big guy. But to me, a tussle like that is good for the soul (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Muscle Tussle (1953)

Sheriff Nell's Tussle (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• My tussle with the devil, and other stories (reference)

• The Muscle Tussle (Mr. t and Me) (reference)

• The Tussle Between the Citizens and Foreigners in Assam (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "tussle": tussle-haired.

Afrikaans

baklei (be at loggerheads). (various references)

Albanian

përleshje (conflict, dustup, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scramble, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, set to, skirmish), kapem (cling, fasten, hitch, hold on, hold on to). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصارع (grapple, wrestle), ‏صراع (combat, conflict, contest, fight, hassle, strife, struggle, warfare, wrestling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стълкновение (collision, conflict, foul, impact, turnup, war), боря се (antagonize, contend, fight, grapple, militate, reluct, scramble, struggle, wrestle), бой (action, battle, doing, drubbing, fight, hiding, lashing, leathering, licking, lump, punishment, rough and tumble, rough up, thrashing, towelling, trimming, turnup, walloping, warming, whaling), бия се (combat, fight, meet, toss, war, welter). (various references)

Czech

zápas (agony, battle, bout, contest, encounter, fight, game, match, struggle, wrestle, wrestling), rvaèka (affray, dogfight, fight, fracas, melee, scrap, scrimmage), povyk (ado, ballyhoo, clamor, clamour, din, fuss, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, rampage, riot, row, rumpus, uproar), šarvátka (dogfight, skirmish). (various references)

Dutch

plukharen (be at loggerheads), met elkaar vechten (be at loggerheads), bakkeleien (be at loggerheads). (various references)

Esperanto

interkvereli (be at loggerheads), interbatali (be at loggerheads). (various references)

Faeroese

berjast (be at loggerheads, fight, strive, struggle). (various references)

Farsi 

مسابقه جسمانی , مجادله (Contention, Toil), نزاع کردن (Jar, Quarrel, Wrangle), کشمکش (Bout, Conflict, Scrimmage, Scuffle, Skirmish, Struggle, Toil, Wrestle), تق�'لاکردن , تق�'لا, بحث کردن (Argue, Bandy, Discuss, Dissert, Treat). (various references)

French

se battre. (various references)

German

kämpfen (attack, battle, brawl, campaign, combat, contend, fight, fray, grapple, push, skirmish, strive, struggle, to battle, to brawl, to combat, to fight, to tussle). (various references)

Greek 

συμπλοκή (affray, clash, encounter, engagement, fray, mκlιe, scuffle, set to), πάλη (battle, bout, combat, conflict, fight, grapple, match, strife, struggle, wrestle, wrestling), παλαίω (cope, grapple, struggle, wrestle), αγών (agent, bout, combat, game, heave, spar, strife, struggle, tourney, tug). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאבק (conflict, contest, fight, hassle, struggle, tilt), ל�"תקוטט (come to blows, quarrel, row, scrap, wrangle), �"תמו�"�"ות (contest, struggle, wrestling), �"ת�'וששות (wrestling), �"אבקות (wrestling). (various references)

Hungarian

tusakodik (to tussle), verekedés (brawl, brawling, fight, fray, hassle, melee, mix in, punch-up, rowdiness, run-in, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to), küzdelem (bout, combat, contention, contest, fight, fray, pull, scramble, strife, striving, struggle), birkózás (wrestle, wrestling). (various references)

Italian

picchiarsi (be at loggerheads, fight), duellare (be at loggerheads, fight), combattere (battle, be at loggerheads, combat, contend, fight, struggle). (various references)

Manx

strepey (exert, exertion, flounder, grapple, strive, struggle, tug, wallow). (various references)

Pig Latin

ussletay.(various references)

Portuguese

rixa (affray, brawl, bully, riot, rumpus, scrimmage), peleja (action, combat, game, joust, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, struggle), luta (action, assault, brush, campaign, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, grapple, scuffle, set-to, strife, struggle, war, wrestling), contenda (bicker, contention, controversy, dispute, duel, feud, quarrel, row, scramble, scrimmage, squabble, strife, struggle), batalharunscontraosoutros. (various references)

Romanian

pãruialã (brawl, scrap, scuffle, squabble), ceartã (altercation, Bicker, bobbery, brawl, breeze, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, discord, discussion, dispute, dissension, friction, jangle, loggerhead, misunderstanding, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, squabble, squall, Stour, strife, wrangle), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, warming), încãierare (brush, fray, grapple, melee, rough and tumble, rout, row, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, skirmish, wrestle). (various references)

Russian 

борьба (action, battle, contestation, fight, fighting, fray, scuffle, strife, struggle, wrestle, wrestling), бороться (antagonize, conflict, contend, cope, fight, grapple, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, struggled, struggles, struggling, wrestle), драться драка (scuffle), драка (affray, battle royal, fight, fray, mix in, mix-in, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, wigs on the green). (various references)

Scottish

sabaid (a brawl, brawl, fight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tuča (brawl, dogfight, fight, free for all, rumble, scrap, scrape, scuffle, set to, shindig), tući se (fight, scrap, scuffle), gužva (affray, brawl, crowd, crush, jam, melee, pother, row, shindy, squeeze, stir). (various references)

Spanish

reñirse (clash, feud, row, scuffle), pelearse (brawl, broil, clash, fall out, scramble, scrap, set to), pelea (battle, broil, bust up, combat, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, hassle, infighting, mix in, mix up, punch-up, quarrel, scene, scrambling, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff), luchar (agonize, fight, grapple, strive, struggle, vie, wrestle), lucha (battle, contestation, cut, death-feud, fight, fighting, fray, grapple, scramble, scuffle, set to, strife, struggle, tug of war, wrestling), forcejeo (flounder, struggle), forcejear (struggle), agarrada (set to, skirmish). (various references)

Swedish

slagsmål (action, affray, battle, ding-dong, dust-up, fight, fighting, fisticuffs, Gore, mix up, rough and tumble, rough-house, row, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, struggle), slåss (battle, fight, scramble, scrap, scuffle, strive, struggle), dust (bout, clash, grapple). (various references)

Turkish

uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, work away, work hard, wrestle), uğraşma (effort, fight, hassle, struggle, war), mücâdele etmek (agonize, battle, be at war with, be up against, buffet, combat, compete, crusade, fight, fight a battle, strive, struggle, war, wrestle), mücâdele (battle, campaign, combat, contest, fight, fighting, fray, hassle, race, scramble, struggle, tug, tug of war, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), cebelleşmek, cebelleşme. (various references)

Ukrainian

суперечка (beef, contest, controversy, debate, disagreement, ergotism, spar, sparring, variance, words), боротьба (battle, campaign, combat, debate, effort, fight, fighting, grapple, strife, struggle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), боротися (antagonize, battle, buffet, champion, combat, contend, debate, fight, grapple, militate, oppugn, strive, struggle, take on, wrestle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cuộc ẩu đả (affray, doglight, fray, knock-about, scrimmage, scuffle, wrangle), cuộc đánh nhau (engagement, fighting, fray, scrap). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tussle": tussled, tussles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tussle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cussler, nussle, pussle, tassle, tassles, tausel, taussel, tessel, tissle, Toselli, tosle, tossle, Trussel, trussle, tuse, tusel, tusla, tusles, tuslle, tussel, tussie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lusts, lutes, slues, sluts, suets, tules.

-2 letters: less, lest, lets, lues, lust, lute, sels, sets, slue, sues, suet, tels, tule, uses.

-3 letters: els, ess, let, leu, sel, set, sue, tel, use, uts.

-4 letters: el, es, et, us, ut.

+1 letter: bustles, gutless, hustles, justles, lotuses, lushest, lusters, lustres, results, rustles, salutes, sleuths, solutes, sublets, sutlers, taluses, tousles, tugless, tussled, tussles, ulsters.

+2 letters: blusters, clusters, cultuses, cutlases, ductless, duelists, dustless, eusteles, flatuses, flushest, flusters, gustless, hurtless, hustlers, litmuses, lousiest, lustiest, outbless, outsells, outsoles, plushest, pulsates, pustules, rustlers, rustless, ruthless, saluters, scuttles, sellouts, setulose, setulous, shuttles, slugfest, spurtles, stipules, streusel, strudels, stubbles, stumbles, styluses, sublates, subtlest, sulfates, sulfites, sulkiest, sunbelts, supplest, surliest, tubeless, tuneless, turfless, tuskless, unsteels, utensils, utilises.