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toupee

/tuːˈpeɪ/

toupee noun: a wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.

toupee: a wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man
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Noun

toupee (plural toupees)

  1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.
    • Near-synonym: hair system
  2. (obsolete) A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
  3. (obsolete) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.
    • Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

toupee meaning in Kannada and Tagalog

toupee in Kannada

ಕೃತಕ ಕೂದಲು

toupee in Tagalog

wig
tambulok

Synonyms of toupee

Forms of toupee

pluraltoupees
alternative formtoupe
alternative formtoupée
alternative formtoupet

Origin of toupee

1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.

Words formed from toupee

Phrases with toupee

Words that rhyme with toupee

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Questions about toupee

What does toupee mean?
Toupee means a wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.
What is toupee in Kannada?
Toupee in Kannada is ಕೃತಕ ಕೂದಲು. See Toupee meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is toupee?
Toupee is a noun.
How do you pronounce toupee?
Toupee is pronounced /tuːˈpeɪ/.
What is the plural of toupee?
The plural of toupee is toupees.

Words near toupee in the dictionary

  1. Tounj
  2. tounkite
  3. toupas
  4. toupases
  5. toupe
  6. toupee
  7. toupee fallacies
  8. toupee fallacy
  9. toupeed
  10. toupees
  11. toupes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: toupee (page history and authors); toupee (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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