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shockheaded

American  
[shok-hed-id] / ˈʃɒkˌhɛd ɪd /

adjective

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


shockheaded British  
/ ˈʃɒkˌhɛdɪd /

adjective

  1. having a head of bushy or tousled hair

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of shockheaded

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

Example Sentences

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Hon. John Robert Clynes, shockheaded, beady-eyed, a leading Laborite of the moderate wing, thought the only element of surprise in the decision was that it had come so late.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide.

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

John Flint knew inoffensive, timid Michael; he knew his broad-bosomed, patient, cowlike wife, and he liked the brood of shockheaded youngsters who plodded along patient in old clothes, bare-footed, and with scanty enough food.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway