shockhead

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Etymology[edit]

shock +‎ head

Noun[edit]

shockhead (plural shockheads)

  1. A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
      She carries it so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shockheads of all the village boys, and village dogs: it grows like grass.
    • 1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:
      Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
  2. A person having hair of this kind.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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