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rug-headed

rug-headed adjective: having shaggy hair, shock-headed.

Adjective

rug-headed (comparative more rug-headed, superlative most rug-headed)

  1. (dated) Having shaggy hair, shock-headed.
    • […] Now for our Irish wars:
      We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
      Which live like venom where no venom else
      But only they have privilege to live.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...

Forms of rug-headed

comparativemore rug-headed
superlativemost rug-headed

Questions about rug-headed

What does rug-headed mean?
Rug-headed means having shaggy hair, shock-headed.
What part of speech is rug-headed?
Rug-headed is an adjective.

Words near rug-headed in the dictionary

  1. rug riders
  2. rug up
  3. rug-cutter
  4. rug-cutters
  5. rug-cutting
  6. rug-headed
  7. rug-muncher
  8. rug-munchers
  9. rug-pull
  10. rug-pulls
  11. ruga

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