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shockhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From shock + head.

Meanings

1. A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
   • 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. 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
   • 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. 1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:
2. A person having hair of this kind.

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