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shockhead

shockhead noun: a head of long, unkempt, rough hair.

Noun

shockhead (plural shockheads)

  1. A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
    • She carries it so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shockheads of all the village boys, and village dogs: it grows like grass.1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural Method of Mental Philosophy
    • Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160
  2. A person having hair of this kind.

Forms of shockhead

pluralshockheads
alternative formshock-head

Origin of shockhead

From shock + head.

Questions about shockhead

What does shockhead mean?
Shockhead means a head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
What part of speech is shockhead?
Shockhead is a noun.
What is the plural of shockhead?
The plural of shockhead is shockheads.

Words near shockhead in the dictionary

  1. Shockeys
  2. shockfic
  3. shockfics
  4. shockfront
  5. shockfronts
  6. shockhead
  7. shockheaded
  8. shockheads
  9. shockie
  10. shockier
  11. shockies

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