red-headed
Americanadjective
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having red hair, as a person.
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having a red head, as an animal, especially a bird.
adjective
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(of a person) having red hair
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(of an animal) having a red head
Etymology
Origin of red-headed
First recorded in 1555–65
Example Sentences
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The manager, Scott Millward, had been escorting a "red-headed" external auditor when the remark was made on 13 August 2024.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
The nickname was hung on him by players in Pachuca’s youth system who thought that Lozano, then 11, resembled the evil red-headed Chucky doll from the “Child’s Play” series of horror films.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025
In the liner notes for the Craft Recordings anniversary reissue, journalist Josh Modell calls it “the beautiful but misunderstood, complex but overlooked, difficult but incredibly rewarding red-headed stepchild of the R.E.M. catalog.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023
Better birders than I have already debunked the “sightings” as likely being of pileated woodpeckers or red-headed woodpeckers.
From Slate • May 27, 2023
The menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dyinjj consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red-headed female and seventy-eight dark dolychocephalic male twins, respectively.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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