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rugheaded

rugheaded is the alternative form of rug-headed.

Meaning of rug-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 rugheaded

comparativemore rugheaded
superlativemost rugheaded

Questions about rugheaded

What is rugheaded the alternative form of?
Rugheaded is the alternative form of rug-headed.

Words near rugheaded in the dictionary

  1. Ruggles
  2. Ruggs
  3. ruggy
  4. Rugh
  5. rughead
  6. rugheaded
  7. rugheads
  8. Rughs
  9. Rugia
  10. Rugian
  11. Rugians

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