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Judas-haired

Judas-haired adjective: having red hair.

Adjective

Judas-haired (not comparable)

  1. Having red hair.
    • One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]1888, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, page 475

Origin of Judas-haired

From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.

Questions about Judas-haired

What does Judas-haired mean?
Judas-haired means having red hair.
What part of speech is Judas-haired?
Judas-haired is an adjective.

Words near Judas-haired in the dictionary

  1. Judas trees
  2. Judas window
  3. Judas windows
  4. Judas-ear
  5. Judas-ears
  6. Judas-haired
  7. Judas-hole
  8. Judas-holes
  9. judases
  10. Judaslike
  11. Judasly

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