towhead

or tow-head

[ toh-hed ]

noun

1. a person with very light blond hair:

   He’s the only towhead in the family but otherwise looks almost identical to his brother Mike.

2. a head of very light blond hair:

   C’mon, Blondie, get your towhead off the pillow and let’s get going!

3. a sandbar in a river, especially a sandbar along a stand of cottonwood trees.

towhead

/ ˈtəʊˌhɛd /

noun

1. a person with blond or yellowish hair
2. a head of such hair

Other Words From

• tow·head·ed tow-head·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of towhead¹

An Americanism first recorded in 1820–30; tow ² + head

Word History and Origins

Origin of towhead¹

from tow ² (flax)

Example Sentences

Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other.

From The Daily Beast

As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.

From Project Gutenberg

We laid up for the day on a towhead tolerable close to the left-hand bank.

From Project Gutenberg

On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years.

From Project Gutenberg

Only that morning I had seen Towhead, crouched behind a clump of syringas, playing sharp-shooter.

From Project Gutenberg

To the right of that was a towhead, a newly formed island of mud and sand partly awash.

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