towhead
See also: tow-head
English
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Etymology
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[edit]towhead (plural towheads)
- A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
- 1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:
- You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.
- 1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:
- Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.
- 2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,
- “Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow," the towhead said.
- 2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,
- The courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves.
- An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.
Derived terms
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[edit]blond person
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alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar or silt island
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