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noun a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
originUncertain. Likely from or related to tusk + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle High German zūsach (“thicket”), a derivative of Middle High German zūse (“lock of hair”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dosag (“little tuft”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0