Made disheveled, rumpled, or disordered, as if having been tumbled or rolled about.
From Middle English 'tumble' (to roll or fall) with the prefix 'be-' meaning 'to make or become.' The prefix 'be-' was commonly used in Old and Middle English to turn verbs into adjectives describing a state or condition.
The prefix 'be-' is like a linguistic time machine—it appears in older English words like 'beguiled,' 'befuddled,' and 'beloved,' and shows how English speakers once used it much more freely to create new descriptive words.
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