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brownhead

brownhead noun: a woman with brown hair; a brunette.

Noun

brownhead (plural brownheads)

  1. A woman with brown hair; a brunette.
    • No blondes, Brownie and Bunny, but a brace of lovely brownheads; bobbed, of course; and their loveliness was so perfectly darkly dressed that I couldn't tell you what they wore under their squirrel and beaver coats […]1923, Ashton Stevens, Actorviews: Intimate Portraits, page 278
    • Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.2020, Eleanore King, Glorify Yourself

Forms of brownhead

pluralbrownheads

Origin of brownhead

From brown + head.

Questions about brownhead

What does brownhead mean?
Brownhead means a woman with brown hair; a brunette.
What part of speech is brownhead?
Brownhead is a noun.
What is the plural of brownhead?
The plural of brownhead is brownheads.

Words near brownhead in the dictionary

  1. browneyed
  2. browneyes
  3. brownface
  4. brownfield
  5. brownfields
  6. brownhead
  7. brownheads
  8. Brownhill
  9. Brownhills
  10. brownian
  11. Brownian motion

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