shockheaded

American  

[shok-hed-id] / ˈʃɒkˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

1. having a shock or thick mass of hair on the head.

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shockheaded British  

/ ˈʃɒkˌhɛdɪd /

adjective

1. having a head of bushy or tousled hair

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Etymology

Origin of shockheaded

First recorded in 1810–20; shock ³ + head + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski.

From Time Magazine Archive

His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the dinner Henry Wallace, the shockheaded editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he pulled himself together by a great effort, and fixing his eyes on a shockheaded urchin half way down the church, read the service to him.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.