housing

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Platini scored all types of goals, including a brilliant diving header as part of a perfect hat-trick against Yugoslavia, his second in two games after another in the 5-0 tousing of Belgium.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2016

I have forgotten with tousing by the hair, What I devised to say a little ere.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

There was Bathurst arranging the custom-house pass;   And to guard the frail package from tousing and routing, There stood my Lord Eldon, endorsing it "Glass,"   Tho' as to which side should lie uppermost, doubting.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael