Judas-haired

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.

Adjective[edit]

Judas-haired (not comparable)

  1. Having red hair.
    • 1888, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, page 475:
      One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]
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