Shockhead

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    A person having hair of this kind.

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From shock + head.

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