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elflock

elflock noun: a lock of hair that is tangled.

Noun

elflock (plural elflocks)

  1. (archaic) A lock of hair that is tangled.
    • [T]heir wide Farthingales extreamly fill the Coach, an one would take their thick and knotty Elflocks for Hempen ſtuffing, broke out of an old pack-ſaddle.1699, [Antoine de Brunel], A Journey Into Spain, London: R. Wellington, page 68
    • Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278

Forms of elflock

pluralelflocks

Origin of elflock

From elf + lock.

Questions about elflock

What does elflock mean?
Elflock means a lock of hair that is tangled.
What part of speech is elflock?
Elflock is a noun.
What is the plural of elflock?
The plural of elflock is elflocks.

Words near elflock in the dictionary

  1. elfland
  2. elfless
  3. elflike
  4. elfling
  5. elflings
  6. elflock
  7. elflocks
  8. elflore
  9. elfmaid
  10. elfmaids
  11. Elfmanesque

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