headroach

English

Etymology

head +‎ roach

Noun

headroach (plural headroaches)

1. Synonym of roach (“kind of headdress worn by some indigenous peoples of North American”)
   • 1975, Lew Blockcoski, edited by Kenneth Rosen, Voices of the Rainbow, paperback edition, New York: The Viking Press, published 1980, →ISBN, Reservation Special, page 168:

     Aiming his one-eyed magic / he frames headroaches and cockroaches.