shockhead

Definitions

1. A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
2. A person having hair of this kind.

Examples

“She carries it so carelessly, it seems like⟳ the profusion of hair on the shockheads of all the village boys, and village dogs: it grows like⟳ grass.”

“Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke⟳, and children inconceivably filthy, yell⟳ wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.”

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