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headhair en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English *heed-heer, from Old English hēafodhǣr (“hair of the head, headhair”), equivalent to head + hair. Cognate with Dutch hoofdhaar (“headhair”), German Haupthaar (“headhair”), Danish hovedhår (“headhair”), Swedish huvudhår (“headhair”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Hair which grows on the head.
   • I could see my snipped-to-pieces and differentlengthed ^([sic]) headhair all over her knees. 2002, Sandro Meallet, Edgewater Angels:
   • [...] Brothers strut like generals spinning & tangling of hair entanglement of headhairs was among them [...] 1973, George Quasha, Jerome Rothenberg, America, a prophecy:
   • [...] breakfasted before dressing, cleaned up; floors swept, dusted, things moved around and, replaced listened to the news on the radio, shaved carefully, going over the white stubble two times. "Funny how my headhair is dark, not one grey hair, you see, and how my beard, if I let it grow is all white. [...]" 1967, The Transatlantic review:
   • The midwife shaves the headhair of the child, takes it in a Phumk (vessel of Sal leave) and immerse in the water of Bonga-Pokhri. 1992, Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Religion, Rituals and Festivals:
   • If something else (gets in the ear) put the tips of the headhair in the ear as far as possible. 2009, Barbara Zipser, John the Physician's Therapeutics:

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