towhead

or tow-head

[ toh-hed ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person with very light blond hair:
He’s the only towhead in the family but otherwise looks almost identical to his brother Mike.
a head of very light blond hair:
C’mon, Blondie, get your towhead off the pillow and let’s get going!
a sandbar in a river, especially a sandbar along a stand of cottonwood trees.

towhead

/ ˈtəʊˌhɛd /

Origin of towhead¹

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

Origin of towhead¹

from tow ² (flax)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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