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Touzle or Tousle, in its original sense, meant "to rumple"—"to pull or mess about." but came in time to signify, in erotic slang, the act of "mastering a woman by romping." (Vide Farmer: Slang and Analogues.) It belongs to that class of word connoting the sexual act which may be described as energetic, as implying a sense of lively action and movement. Farmer, under his key-word Ride, gives a number of similar terms among them: to belly-bump; to bounce; to cuddle; to ferret; to frisk; to fumble; to hug; to hustle; to jiggle; to jumble; to muddle; to niggle; to plough; to rummage; to shake; and to tumble. Touzle is Fieldings term for the veneral act.