rote

rotes (plural)
roten (plural)
root (alternative)
roote (alternative)
rot (alternative)
rotæ (alternative)

desctree

English: root, wrout, rout (dialectal), wroot (obsolete)
→ Irish: rúta

Scots: ruit, rute

From Late Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Doublet of wort (“plant”). See more at English root.

The foundation or base of a protuberance or extension of the body:

The root of the hair; the part of the hair within the scalp.

foꝛ þe roote of alle yuelis is coueitiſe / whiche ſummen coueitynge .· erriden fro þe feiþ. / ⁊ biſettiden hem wiþ manye ſoꝛewis

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Tymothe ·i· 6:10, page 84r; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

And the root of all wrongs is covetousness, which some yearned for and strayed from the faith; they've unleashed many sorrows upon themselves.

Something which generates, creates, or emanates something:

The origin of an abstract quality; that which something originally came from.

A wellspring or exemplar of an abstract quality that which something comes from.


dreadlocks

en-noun

dreadlocks pl (normally plural, singular dreadlock)

Bob Marley
University of the West Indies Press

Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analysable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks.

compound

The patient history may point to the use of tight hairstyles that put tension on the hair root or hair treatments that increase the vulnerability to traction-related damage. The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Oma N. Agbai, Jodie Raffi, “Hair Loss in Women of Color”, in Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, editors, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (Updates in Clinical Dermatology), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 154, column 2:

A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.

rastalokke

hairstyle in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into long matted strings


dreadlocks

/ˌdɾɛd͡ʒˈlɔks/

/ˌdɾɛd͡ʒˈlɔks/

/ˌdɾɛd͡ʒˈlɔkʃ/

/ˌdɾɛd͡ʒˈlɔks/

/ˌdɾɛˈdlɔkʃ/

[ˌdɾɛˈðlɔkʃ]

Unadapted borrowing from English dreadlocks.

ubor

(usually uncountable) dreadlocks (hair left to grow into long matted strings)


dreads

Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche.


locks

Alternative forms: 'locs, locs


dread

en-adj

dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)

dreader (comparative)
dreadest (superlative)

From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above.

der

The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]

1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC:

(archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.


conk

en-verb

conk (third-person singular simple present conks, present participle conking, simple past and past participle conked)

conks (present singular third-person)
conking (participle present)
conked (participle past)
conked (past)

From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product.

The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.

1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965:

(US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

kiegyenesít

to chemically straighten tightly curled hair


vous

vous (nominative singular)
vousy (nominative plural)
vousu (genitive singular)
vousů (genitive plural)
vousu (dative singular)
vousům (dative plural)
vous (accusative singular)
vousy (accusative plural)
vouse (singular vocative)
vousy (plural vocative)
vousu (locative singular)
vousech (locative plural)
vousem (instrumental singular)
vousy (instrumental plural)
fous (alternative)


fade

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).

A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.


plait

From Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.

doublet

Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:


part

desc

→ Cantonese: part (paat¹), parts (paat¹ si²) (from the plural noun form)

→ Japanese: パート (pāto), パーツ (pātsu) (from the plural noun form)

From Middle English part, from Old English part (“part”) and Old French part (“part”); both from Latin partem, accusative of pars (“piece, portion, share, side, party, faction, role, character, lot, fate, task, lesson, part, member”), from Proto-Indo-European *par-, *per- (“to sell, exchange”). Akin to Latin portiō (“a portion, part”), parāre (“to make ready, prepare”). Displaced Middle English del, dele (“part”) (from Old English dǣl (“part, distribution”) > Modern English deal (“portion; amount”)), Middle English dale, dole (“part, portion”) (from Old English dāl (“portion”) > Modern English dole), Middle English sliver (“part, portion”) (from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave”), from Old English (tō)slifan (“to split”)).

noncog

3 is a part of 12.

A portion; a component.
(mathematics, dated) A factor.

(Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.


kožušina

sk-noun

kožušina f (relational adjective kožušinový, diminutive kožušinka)

kožušinový (adjective relational)
kožušinka (diminutive)
nominative
kožušina (singular)
kožušiny (plural)
genitive
kožušiny (singular)
kožušín (plural)
dative
kožušine (singular)
kožušinám (plural)
accusative
kožušinu (singular)
locative
kožušinách (plural)
instrumental
kožušinou (singular)
kožušinami (plural)


fur

en-noun

fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *fōdar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“sheath”) (compare Old English fōdor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐍂 (fōdr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-, *poh₂- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemuō (“protection”), Ancient Greek πῶυ (pôu, “flock”), πῶμα (pôma, “lid”), ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”), Old Armenian հաւրան (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit पाति (pāti, “he watches, protects”).
The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line, stuff, fill”), from the noun.

مِعْطَف

hairy skin processed to serve as clothing

(vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.


ryšavec

nominative
ryšavec (singular)
ryšavci (plural)
genitive
ryšavca (singular)
ryšavcov (plural)
dative
ryšavcovi (singular)
ryšavcom (plural)
accusative
locative
ryšavcoch (plural)
instrumental
ryšavcom (singular)
ryšavcami (plural)

From ryšavý (“redheaded”) + -ec (“person”).

a redhead (person with red or auburn hair)


muška

muška (nominative singular)
mušky (nominative plural)
mušky (genitive singular)
mušek (genitive plural)
mušce (dative singular)
muškám (dative plural)
mušku (accusative singular)
mušky (accusative plural)
muško (singular vocative)
mušky (plural vocative)
mušce (locative singular)
muškách (locative plural)
muškou (instrumental singular)
muškami (instrumental plural)


mat

nl-noun

mat m or f (plural matten, diminutive matje n)

matten (plural)
matje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: mat

From Middle Dutch matte, borrowed from Latin matta. Cognates include English mat and German Matte.


plat

The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat.
The verb is derived from the noun.

The best ſoyle commonly yeelds the worſt Ayre, a dry ſandy plat is fitteſt to build upon, and ſuch as is rather hilly then plaine, full of Downes, a Cotſwald county, as being moſt commodious for hawking, hunting, wood, waters, and all manner of pleaſures.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Ayre Rectified. With a Digression of the Ayre.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 220:

Such pleaſure took the Serpent to behold
 This Flourie Plat, the ſweet receſs of Eve
 Thus earlie, thus alone; [...]

1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 455–457:

O Blackbird! sing me something well: / While all the neighbours shoot thee round, / I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, / Where thou may’st warble, eat, and dwell.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Blackbird”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 208:

[W]e come to a spot which must have been a favorite resting-place for the poet, a low stone seat under a huge live oak, with a formal plat of grass and a stone seat opposite.

1913 April, Lela Angier Lenfest, “The Garden of ‘The Rosary’”, in Sunset: The Pacific Monthly, volume 30, number 4, San Francisco, Calif.: H. S. Crocker, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 353:

For which cauſe I wiſh you to enter into conſideration of the matter, & to note all the Iſlands, and to ſet them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to ſay, That we may deuiſe to take the benefit by them, And alſo foreſee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any ſort annoy us in our purpoſed trade that way.

1580, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], published 1589, →OCLC, page 460:

A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.

1888, John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, […], volume 112, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers, →OCLC, headnote:

The purpose of the preapplication conference is to allow the developer to meet informally with the planning board before going to the expense of preparing a formal plat.

1982, Robert N[eil] Corley, Peter J. Shedd, Charles F. Floyd, Real Estate and the Law, New York, N.Y.: Business Division, Random House, →ISBN, page 174; Charles F. Floyd, Marcus T. Allen, “Public Restrictions on Ownership”, in Real Estate Principles, 7th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Real Estate Education, Dearborn Financial Publishing, 2002, →ISBN, page 75:

In 1877, a formal plat of the unincorporated village was published [...]. The publication of the plat, seven years after the village was laid out, likely reflected the beginning of the process toward formal incorporation of the municipality.

2005 November 23, Aharon N. Varady, “Bond Hill, Ohio, 1870–1903”, in Bond Hill: Origin and Transformation of a 19th Century Cincinnati Metro-Suburb, 10th edition, Cincinnati, Oh.: Henry Watkin Press & Cosmographic Design Initiates, →ISBN, page 76:

A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.

скица

Besides some care is taken, so far as conveniently can be, both to give regard to the further spring of any matter tending to the entry or execution of any other or evil plat, and also upon the sight thereof, to have timely recourse to the King, to warn him and others to beware and provide for the seasonable prevention of the danger; [...]

1582 July 9, Robert Bowes, “CCXXV.—‘To Sir Francis Walsingham, ix July 1583.’ From the Letter-Book, p. 223.”, in [Joseph] Stevenson, editor, The Correspondence of Robert Bowes, of Aske, Esquire, the Ambassador of Queen Elizabeth in the Court of Scotland (The Publications of the Surtees Society), London: J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Son, […]; William Pickering, […]; Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes, published 1842, →OCLC, page 488:

[S]o shall our plat in this one point be larger and much surmount that which [Richard] Stanihurst first tooke in hand by his exameters dactilicke and spondaicke in the translation of Virgills Eneidos, [...]

1589, George Puttenham, chapter XII, in The Arte of English Poesie: […], London: Printed by Richard Field, […], →OCLC; republished as Jos[eph] Haslewood, editor, The Arte of English Poesie, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], 1811, →OCLC, book II (Of Proportion Poetical), page 90:


plat

en-noun

plat (countable and uncountable, plural plats)

The noun is a variant of plait.
The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).

inh

Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...]

1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.

c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013)

[…] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.

1830, The Ladies’ Museum, volume 31, page 59:

A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).


plat

en-verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

plats (present singular third-person)
platting (participle present)
platted (participle past)
platted (past)

And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:29:

A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]

1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page 349:

She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.

2006, Elka Paquette, Taboo, →ISBN, page 100:

She carried in her hand a broad belt of wampum, and a white honeycomb from the hollow oak, and on her way she stopped and platted a garland of the gayest flowers of the season.

1828, William Cullen Bryant, “The Cascade of Melsingah”, in The Talisman, volume 1, New York, page 206:

(dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.


brada

brada (nominative singular)
brady (nominative plural)
brady (genitive singular)
brad (genitive plural)
bradě (dative singular)
bradám (dative plural)
bradu (accusative singular)
brady (accusative plural)
brado (singular vocative)
brady (plural vocative)
bradě (locative singular)
bradách (locative plural)
bradou (instrumental singular)
bradami (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech brada, from Proto-Slavic *bordà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā́ˀ.


brada

bráda (canonical feminine)
бра́да (Cyrillic)
brada (nominative singular)
brade (nominative plural)
brade (genitive singular)
brada (genitive plural)
bradi (dative singular)
bradama (dative plural)
bradu (accusative singular)
brade (accusative plural)
brado (singular vocative)
brade (plural vocative)
bradi (locative singular)
bradama (locative plural)
bradom (instrumental singular)
bradama (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *borda, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bardā́ˀ.


brada

sk-noun

brada f (diminutive briadka or bradička, augmentative bradisko)

briadka (diminutive)
bradička (diminutive)
bradisko (augmentative)
nominative
brada (singular)
brady (plural)
genitive
brady (singular)
brád (plural)
dative
brade (singular)
bradám (plural)
accusative
bradu (singular)
locative
bradách (plural)
instrumental
bradou (singular)
bradami (plural)


brada

bráda (canonical feminine)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
bráda (nominative singular)
brádi (dual nominative)
bráde (nominative plural)
bráde (genitive singular)
brád (dual genitive)
brád (genitive plural)
brádi (dative singular)
brádama (dative dual)
brádam (dative plural)
brádo (accusative singular)
brádi (accusative dual)
bráde (accusative plural)
brádi (locative singular)
brádah (dual locative)
brádah (locative plural)
brádo (instrumental singular)
brádama (dual instrumental)
brádami (instrumental plural)
please help by adding the tonal marks.
bráda (nominative singular)
bradé (dual nominative)
bradé (nominative plural)
bradé (genitive singular)
brád (dual genitive)
brád (genitive plural)
brádi (dative singular)
bradáma (dative dual)
bradàm (dative plural)
bradó (accusative singular)
bradé (accusative dual)
bradé (accusative plural)
brádi (locative singular)
bradàh (dual locative)
bradàh (locative plural)
bradó (instrumental singular)
bradáma (dual instrumental)
bradámi (instrumental plural)


goatee

From goat + -ee (diminutive suffix), referring to the tuft of hair on the chin of many domestic goats.

Coordinate term: soul patch

One person sports a goatee, the hair refusing to grow on the sides of his physiognomy; the chin of another is as smooth as a baby's cheek,—he contents himself with a modest moustache and a faint attempt at an imperial; while a few of the upper classes rejoice in all the varieties.

1845 February, “Editors' Table”, in The Williams Monthly Miscellany, volume 1, number 8, page 367:

The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, London: Methuen & Co., […], published 1907, →OCLC; The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907, →OCLC, page 44:

"Yes, sir, behind you. He is a man of middle size, rather inclined to shortness. He is old, over sixty, with white hair, curved nose and a white, small beard of the variety that is called goatee."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.


nappy

Probably shortened from napkin (but possibly a corruption of French nappe, since napkin is already a diminutive) + -y (diminutive ending).

The baby did a poo in her nappy.

You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.

1995, Jennie Lindon, Lance Lindon, Leandra Negrini, Caring for Young Children, page 60:

Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies,[…].

2005, Medical Association of Malawi, “Malawi Medical Journal: The Journal of Medical Association of Malawi”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 17, page 39:

You could burn disposable nappies (not a very practical option); otherwise, it′s probably best to take a supply of large plastic bags or nappy sacks with you and to dispose of them as thoughtfully as you can.

2008, Isabelle Young, Healthy Travel: Asia & India, 2nd edition, Lonely Planet, page 275:

In response we mailed hundreds of nappies to students in halls. On the nappy was a simple message, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PUT ON A CONDOM.

2009, Chris Arnold, Ethical Marketing and The New Consumer, page 55:

(British, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.


nappy

en-adj

nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)

nappier (comparative)
nappiest (superlative)

1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438,
The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each side, […] .

Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.

They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 4:

We would talk about each other′s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so′s.

1987, Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography, page 30:

For example, some Black people′s corporeal zones include nappy hair texture, wide noses, thick lips, and darker-than-white skin complexion, all of which come into play when an individual is interacting with a cultural “Other.”

2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body, page 52:

She had decided to just cover her hair with a scarf because Aunt Bell was “old school” and Zollar did not want to have to explain why she had nappy hair.

2010, Nadine George-Graves, Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, page 50:

(US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)


lank

lank (comparative lanker, superlative lankest)

lanker (comparative)
lankest (superlative)

From Middle English lank, from Old English hlanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlank, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“lank, thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind, twist”); compare German lenken (“to turn”), Gelenk (“joint”), Old High German hlanca (“hip, side, flank”), and English link (of a chain).

cog

Run barefoot up and down, threat’ning the flames
With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
About her lank and all o’erteemed loins,
A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

1700, Isaac Barrow, Sermon XXII “Of Industry in our particular Calling, as Scholars,” in The Works of the Learned Isaac Barrow, D.D., London: John Tillotson, 2nd edition, Volume III, p. 226,
[…] who would not chuse […] to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain […] ?

1724-5, Jonathan Swift, “A Receipt. To Restore Stella’s Youth” in The Works of Jonathan Swift, London: Henry Washbourne, 1841, Volume 1, p. 687,
Meagre and lank with fasting grown,
And nothing left but skin and bone;

The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.

1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:

[…] while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour.

1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 6, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:

Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton.

1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.

1659, Samuel Cradock, Knowledge & Practice, Or, A Plain Discourse of the Chief Things Necessary to be Known, Believ’d & Practised in order to Salvation, London: John Rothwell, Chapter 17, Of the Duties of the Rich, pp. 494-495,
We should think him a very imprudent Husbandman, that to save a little seed at present, would sow so thin, as to spoil his crop. And the same folly ’twill be in us, if by the sparingness and niggardize of our Almes, we make our selves a lank Harvest hereafter, and lose the reward God hath provided for the liberal Almes-giver.

The Captain was inclined to be bald, but he brought a quantity of lank iron-grey hair over his pate, and had a couple of whisps of the same falling down on each side of his face.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

(obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.

1695, John Stevens (translator), The Portugues Asia; or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues, by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, London: C. Brome, Chapter 10, p. 291,
The Inhabitants most simple, and treated them with great affection. Of Colour more inclined to white, of Body strong and comly, lank Hair, and long Beards, their Cloaths of very fine Mats […]

Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizled, and others lank; they had beards like goats, and a long ridge of hair down their backs, and the fore-parts of their legs and feet […]

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 129:

She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features—so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind.

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

There were coffee houses where the first medical men might be consulted. […] There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard, and where lank-haired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 286:

He was an exceedingly thin old man. Down from his head to his shoulders hung long, yellow, lank locks and within this enclosure was an old bony face, the forehead seamed with a thousand wrinkles.

1940, Hugh Walpole, The Bright Pavilions, London: Macmillan, Part I:

(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)

The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played,
Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in,
Bearing her straight to aged Nereus’ hall;
Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head,
And gave her to his daughters to imbathe […]

1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 833–837:

Let us weigh the promises of the one and of the other in the balance of truth, and we shall finde that the promises of God are gold, and the promises of the devil are Alchimy, such which though they glitter much, have no worth or excellency in them. […] God’s, are substantial realities, and his, vanishing and fleeting shadows windy and swollen bladders, which but a little prickt, do quickly fall and grow lank.

1655, William Spurstowe, chapter 18, in The Wels of Salvation Opened, London: Ralph Smith, pages 249–250:


capillary

/ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/

/ˈkæpɪˌlɛɹi/

/käˈpɪʎä.ɹi/

/käˈpɪʎä.ɾi/

From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).

der

(anatomy) Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).

kapilar

any of small blood vessels that connect arteries to veins


fuzzy

en-adj

fuzzy (comparative fuzzier, superlative fuzziest)

fuzzier (comparative)
fuzziest (superlative)

Uncertain. Apparently from fuzz + -y, though some sources suggest that fuzz derives from fuzzy. Compare fozy, or Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”).

Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals


fuzzy

If you don't yet have a ferret, this book can help you decide whether a fuzzy is for you.

2000, Kim Schilling, Ferrets for Dummies, New York: Wiley, →ISBN, page 1:

Something covered with fuzz or hair, as an animal or plush toy.

A "fuzzy" on the other hand is a "people person," — someone who prefers studying the humanities or social sciences, someone who sees the world in broad contextual terms.

2010, Donald Barr, Questioning the Premedical Paradigm […] , Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy, and if you majored in engineering or computer science, you were a techie.

2017, Scott Hartley, The Fuzzy and the Techie […] , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

(slang) A person, especially a college student, interested in humanities or social sciences, as opposed to one interested in mathematics, science, or engineering.


eyebrow

From Middle English eȝebreu, alteration of Old English ēaganbrū (“eyebrow”), equivalent to eye + brow. The corresponding Old English ēagbrǣw meant "eyelid". Compare Dutch oogbrauw (“eyelid; eyelash; eyebrow”), German Augenbraue (“eyebrow”).

The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.

minin

(construction) A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.

A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.


eyebrow

en-verb

eyebrow (third-person singular simple present eyebrows, present participle eyebrowing, simple past and past participle eyebrowed)

eyebrows (present singular third-person)
eyebrowing (participle present)
eyebrowed (participle past)
eyebrowed (past)

(intransitive) To build up waste fibres in a roller machine.


mascara

en-noun

mascara (countable and uncountable, plural mascaras)

/ˌmæsˈkɑːɹə/

apply mascara

put on mascara

mascara runs

mascara smudges

With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:

There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.

2007, James Burr, Ugly Stories for Beautiful People, page 45:

A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.


misai

ms-noun

misai (Jawi spelling ميساي, plural misai-misai, informal 1st possessive misaiku, 2nd possessive misaimu, 3rd possessive misainya)

ميساي (Jawi)
misai-misai (plural)
misaiku (first-person informal possessive)
misaimu (possessive second-person)
misainya (possessive third-person)


hairstyle

The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.


merkin

1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin.

... his penis squashed invisible under a flesh-colored leather jockstrap, over which he wears a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, the mock labia and bright purple clitoris molded of — Madame had been abject, pleading shortage — synthetic rubber and Mipolam, the new polyvinyl chloride...

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item.


wig

Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!

A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.

שייטל

specifically the sheitel worn by married Orthodox Jewish women


baldness

en-noun

baldness (countable and uncountable, plural baldnesses)

From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.

My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.

We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.

2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:

The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.

صَلَع

Haarausfall (androgenetischer; beim Mann, bei der Frau)


shimada

A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.


silver fox

Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes vulpes#Translingual

A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.


glabrous

en-adj

glabrous (comparative more glabrous, superlative most glabrous)

more glabrous (comparative)
most glabrous (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-glabrous.wav

From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, shining”), possibly from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).

ref

From the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.

der

[T]he Vernacula or French Elm, whoſe leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and ſmooth, delighting in the lower and moiſter grounds, where they will ſometimes riſe to above an hundred foot in height; […]

1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter IV. Of the Elm.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 28:

[Crotalaria obtecta] Stems tall, erect, branched: stipules not decurrent: leaves simple, usually glabrous on the upper side: […] legumes oblong, many-seeded, glabrous or softly pubescent.

1834, Robert Wight, G[eorge] A[rnott] Walker-Arnott, “Order LVI.—Leguminosæ. Juss.”, in Prodromus Floræ Peninsulæ Indiæ Orientalis: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the Plants Found in the Peninsula of British India, Arranged According to the Natural System [Preliminary Publication of the Flora of the Peninsula of Oriential India], volume I, London: Parbury, Allen, & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 572, page 186:

'I am bound by precedent,' said the First Lord, turning a vast glabrous expressionless face from Harte to Sir Joseph.

1973, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 1, in HMS Surprise, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2002, →ISBN, page 2:

Adriaan rose, pulling out his limbering glabrous cock, his eyes happy.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 190:

The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own.

1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Mo O Mo Inta Allo”, in Water Music (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series), New York, N.Y., London: Penguin Books, published 1983, →ISBN, part 1 (The Niger), page 143:

Pietro Perugino
Vallombrosa Abbey
Vallombrosa Altarpiece

أَمْلَس

bald, hairless — see also bald, hairless


electrolysis

en-noun

electrolysis (countable and uncountable, plural electrolyses)

Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday. From electro- + -lysis (“a loosening”). Originally of tumors, later (1909) of hair removal.

coin

But current leakage in a Tube tunnel can cause electrolysis to occur in steel retaining walls, which in turn causes them to rust; it could also damage the foundations of nearby buildings.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 136:

(chemistry) the chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.


shag

en-adj

shag (comparative more shag, superlative most shag)

more shag (comparative)
most shag (superlative)

From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.

der

Son. Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:


hairy

en-adj

hairy (comparative hairier, superlative hairiest)

hairier (comparative)
hairiest (superlative)

From Middle English hery, heeri, hary, equivalent to hair + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian hierich (“hairy”), West Frisian hierrich (“hairy”), Dutch harig (“hairy”), German Low German harig (“hairy”), German haarig (“hairy”), Swedish hårig (“hairy”), Icelandic hárugur (“hairy”). Compare also Old English hǣriht (“hairy”) and ġehǣre (“hairy”).
The sense "terrifying, scary" possibly results from a blend of hair-raising and scary.

a hairy man

(of a person) Having a lot of body hair.

hairy chest;   hairy back

(of a human body part other than the head) Having hair growing from it.

yelling about dirty, hairy hippies

Near-synonym: hairlike

hairy cell leukemia

hairy moss

en:seeming as if hair-covered or as if consisting of hair

Seeming as if hair-covered or as if consisting of hair.


bristle

en-verb

bristle (third-person singular simple present bristles, present participle bristling, simple past and past participle bristled)

bristles (present singular third-person)
bristling (participle present)
bristled (participle past)
bristled (past)

dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York

From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust + -le.

Your blatant attitude always bristles me.

Mr. Berman, you know me well enough to know that I—and it just bristles me when I hear agriculture thrown into one lump basket, that we’re a bunch of crooks and treat our workers bad, because that is not the case. I have—I wish you could talk to some of my farm workers.

1996, Guest Worker Programs: […], United States Government Publishing Office, page 116:

I scowl. “Pretty sure women are not explicitly forbidden in my contract.”
He lowers his voice. “No, but it’s good to be cautious when you're trying to rehab a public image.”
Something about the comment bristles me. “Hey, it’s not my image. I’ve always been good.”

2016 November 7, Lauren Blakely, Out of Bounds, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 65:

When we take on a new name, it can be hard for other people to get used to. […] But if someone new in my life calls me that old name, it bristles me. That’s not who I am.

2021 February, Phoenix LeFae, Gwion Raven, Life Ritualized: A Witch's Guide to Honoring Life's Important Moments, Llewellyn Worldwide, page 135:

‘No. I don’t believe in wasting my money on crap like that.’
‘It’s not your money, it’s mine.’ I can see the comment bristles him; he feels inadequate: his daughter is wealthier than he’s ever been.

2021 April, Terry Westby-Nunn, The Artist Vanishes, Penguin Random House South Africa, page 159:

(transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.


afloat

1695, Edmund Gibson (translator), Camden’s Britannia, London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,”
[…] it [the River Dove] overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile.


curls

Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.

kiharat

specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head


curl

From metathesis of Middle English crulle (“curled, curly”), from Middle Dutch crul, crulle (“curl”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kruzlǭ (“bent or crooked object, curl”), of unknown origin; possibly from Pre-Germanic *grus-, contracted from Proto-Indo-European *gurus- (“twist, curl”), same source as Persian گرس (gors, “braid of hair”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Krulle (“curl, lock”), West Frisian krul (“curl”), Dutch krul (“curl”), German Low German Krull (“curl”), dialectal German Krolle (“curl”), Danish krølle (“curl”), Norwegian krull (“curl”). Related also to Saterland Frisian Kruus (“curl”), German kraus (“frizzy, crumpled, curly”), Danish krus (“curl”), Swedish krusa (“to crimp, curl”). Compare also Gothic 𐌺𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽 (kriustan, “to grind, crush, gnash”).

unk

unknown

cog

[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.

1866, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 7, in Behind A Mask or, A Woman's Power:

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.

Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.

2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health, page 54

(weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.

The one-piece back is of a medium curl.

(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.

loimukuvio

music: light and dark figure seen in wood


curl

en-verb

curl (third-person singular simple present curls, present participle curling, simple past and past participle curled)

curls (present singular third-person)
curling (participle present)
curled (participle past)
curled (past)

straighten

antonym(s) of “to make into a curl or spiral”

straighten

antonym(s) of “to assume the shape of a curl or spiral”

→ Kashubian: kurlowac (Canada)

unk

unknown

She curls her spine; she wedges a pillow between her knees.

2004, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Twelve Times Blessed, page 249:

(transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.

Seas would be pools without the brushing air / To curl the waves.

1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.


bobble

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.

(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

(informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).


bobble

en-verb

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

bobbles (present singular third-person)
bobbling (participle present)
bobbled (participle past)
bobbled (past)


cue

From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.

When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.


cue

Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.

կիյ

straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards, snooker, and pool

Fat, short, radiant, General Chattesworth—in full, artillery uniform—was there, smiling, and making little speeches to the ladies, and bowing stiffly from his hips upward—his great cue playing all the time up and down his back, and sometimes so near the ground when he stood erect and threw back his head, that Toole, seeing Juno eyeing the appendage rather viciously, thought it prudent to cut her speculations short with a smart kick.

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

(obsolete) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.


cue

cue (third-person singular simple present cues, present participle cueing or cuing, simple past and past participle cued)

cues (present singular third-person)
cueing (participle present)
cuing (participle present)
cued (participle past)
cued (past)


hackle

en-noun

hackle (countable and uncountable, plural hackles)

From Middle English hakle (compare the compound meshakele), from Old English hæcla, hacele, from Proto-Germanic *hakulǭ, equivalent to hack + -le. Cognate with Dutch hekel, German Hechel.

Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.


kemp

kemp (countable and uncountable, plural kemps)

From Middle English kempe (“coarse hairs”), from Old English cenep (“moustache; bit (of a bridle, bristling with points)”), from Proto-West Germanic *kanip, from Proto-Germanic *kanipaz (“beard, moustache, whiskers”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“jaw”). Related to chin.

inh

(dialectal or obsolete) A coarse or bristly hair, whisker; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.

(dialectal or obsolete) Rough hair, wool, or fur.


kemp

en-adj

kemp (comparative more kemp, superlative most kemp)

more kemp (comparative)
most kemp (superlative)

From Middle English kempe, campe (“shaggy, rough”).


kemp

From Middle English kempen, from Old English *cempan (“to do battle, fight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to campaign, do battle”), ultimately from Latin campus.

inh

(Scotland, archaic) A contest in work, etc.


kemp

From Middle English kempe, from Old English cempa (“warrior, fighter, champion”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“fighter”), ultimately from Latin campus. Doublet of champion. Cognate with literary German Kämpe (“champion, fighter”), German Kempf.


marcel

Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style.


mouser

From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.

He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 20:

the official resident cat at 10 Downing Street


mouser

Apparently an extended usage of English mouser (“a cat”), hence a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings, possibly with influence from moustache.


muff

Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).

(vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.


poller

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-poller.wav


pomade

en-noun

pomade (countable and uncountable, plural pomades)

From French pommade, from Italian pomata (“ointment, pomade”), from pomo (“apple”) + -ata (“-ade, -ate: forming nouns”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”). Doublet of pomatum, pomate, and pomace. Early pomades tended to be various kinds of fat mixed with apples for a more pleasing scent.

So saying, Lady Mandeville turned to the toilette, and mercilessly tied up in her handkerchief the various brushes, combs, oils, pomade, and rouge, with which the table was profusely covered.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 44:

The rain beat my hair, run down my face and into my mouth so that I can taste the coconut oil pomade from my hair.

2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 94:

A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.

With this excellent Pomade you may Anoint your Face at night, and waſh it off the next day in the morning with Rain-water.

1680, T. K., The Kitchin-Phyſician; Or, a Guide for Good-Housewives in Maintaining Their Families in Health. […] , Of Medicines and other Remedies which are appropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth, page 9:

(obsolete or historical) Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.

(obsolete) Synonym of cider, a soft or hard drink made from apples.


pomade

en-verb

pomade (third-person singular simple present pomades, present participle pomading, simple past and past participle pomaded)

pomades (present singular third-person)
pomading (participle present)
pomaded (participle past)
pomaded (past)

(transitive, obsolete or historical) Synonym of anoint, to apply ointment.


pug

Origin unknown, possibly related to West Flemish pugge (“(adjective) small; (noun) short person; pet name derived from the first name Pugge”); though it is uncertain whether sense 1 (“senses relating to someone or something small”) and sense 2 (“senses relating to people”) are derived from the same source.
Sense 1.8 (“small demon”) was probably influenced by, though not a variant of, puck.

pentu

It is to be observed in this experiment, […] that the loss of weight by feeding (tegs or pugs) on turnips, is remarkable: […]

1808, Thomas Batchelor, “Live Stock”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford. […], London: […] [B. MᶜMillan] for Richard Phillips, […], →OCLC, section 2 (Sheep), page 541:

Senses relating to someone or something small.

(UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.

(specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)

teg

[…] I heard her call him dear pug, and found him to be her favourite monkey.

1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 454:

Its proper Povver to hurt, each Creature feels, / Bulls aim their Horns, and Aſſes lift their Heels, / 'Tis a Bear's Talent not to kick, but hug, / And no Man vvonders he's not ſtung by Pug: […]

1733, Alexander Pope, The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, […], London [actually Edinburgh]: […] L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd […], E[lizabeth] Nutt […], →OCLC, page 13:

Take avvay the pug, ſaid I, to the attendants—Take it avvay vvhile any of it is left—They reſcued the ſtill ſmiling babe, and run avvay vvith it.

1753 (indicated as 1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XLIII. Lady G. to Lady Grandison.”, in The History of Sir Charles Grandison. […], 2nd edition, volume VI, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 211:

Or, is the Monkey sick, he takes his bed; / Old Slop is sent for, to prescribe for Pug.— […]

1812, Peter Pindar [pseudonym; John Wolcot], “Tristia; or, The Sorrows of Peter: […]. Elegy.”, in The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. […], new edition, volume V, London: […] J[ohn] Walker, G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, G. Robinson, […]; and G. Goulding and Co. […], →OCLC, page 297:

(specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.

[T]here is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in: then cheer the hounds with tally ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country: […]

1812, [Maria] Edgeworth, “The Absentee. Chapter VIII.”, in Tales of Fashionable Life (2nd series), volume VI, London: […] [Heney] for J[oseph] Johnson and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 93–94:

That spell was broken by the sight of poor wearied pug, his once gracefully-floating brush all draggled and drooping, as he toiled up the sheep-paths toward the open down above.

1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 16:

Dear, delicate Madam, I am your little Paraquit, your Sparrovv, your Shock, your Pugg, your Squirrel.

1685 July (first performance), N[ahum] Tate, Cuckolds-Haven: Or, An Alderman No Conjurer. A Farce. […], London: […] J. H. and are to be sold by Edward Poole, […], published 1685, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 5:

Squirrels / Are not uncommon in the plantings on the broad edges, where they may be seen feeding on the deal-apples, as the Broadsmen call the fir-cones; nuts and acorns too they are fond of. […] Stoats sometimes chase them, but "pug" generally manages to escape, an[d] he can get to a tree first—he is a much more daring jumper.

1895, P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Shrew Mouse, or Rana, and Squirrels”, in Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 363:


tweeze

en-verb

tweeze (third-person singular simple present tweezes, present participle tweezing, simple past and past participle tweezed)

tweezes (present singular third-person)
tweezing (participle present)
tweezed (participle past)
tweezed (past)

Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.

1929 September 2, “Philatelists”, in Time:

He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm.

1930, Virginia Woolf, “Beau Brummell”, in The Common Reader: Second Series, published 1932:

(transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.

Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.

1950, Anya Seton, chapter 1, in Foxfire, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 4:

He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]

1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:

(transitive) To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.

Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.

2012 November 16, Adriana Ermter, “How to get the perfect eyebrows: Four reasons to enlist a professional”, in Chatelaine:

(intransitive) To pluck out hairs using tweezers.


buzz

en-noun

buzz (countable and uncountable, plural buzzes)

From Middle English *bussen, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle English bunning (“buzzing”), Middle English hossing (“buzzing”), Middle English bissen (“to hush”).

Mr. Hall? The buzz on Christian is that his parents have joint custody, so he'll be spending one semester in Chicago and one semester here.

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):

I wasn't performing with Pimp and Smoove that much no more, but I had a solo deal with Ruthless Rap and a brand new mixtape that was creating a big buzz.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:

In Detroit, the buzz is that he's too nice a guy, unwilling to impose draconian job cuts at the risk of angering the UAW.

2006 September 6, Daren Fonda, “Ford Motor's New Chief: "I Think It's a Tough Situation"”, in Time:

Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Who's he?
Patrick: He's only the most popular kid in school.
Allen Gregory: Ah, the two heavyweights finally meet. Sure you're tired of all the buzz. Allen Gregory DeLongpre.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

(informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.


crisp

en-adj

crisp (comparative crisper, superlative crispest)

crisper (comparative)
crispest (superlative)

From Middle English crisp (“curly”), from Old English crisp (“curly”), from Latin crispus (“curly”). Doublet of crape and crepe.

crisp hair

(dated) Curling in stiff curls or ringlets.


crisp

A baked dessert made with fruit and crumb topping

kale crisps

(UK, Ireland, food) Anything baked or fried in thin slices and eaten as a snack.


crisp

en-verb

crisp (third-person singular simple present crisps, present participle crisping, simple past and past participle crisped)

crisps (present singular third-person)
crisping (participle present)
crisped (participle past)
crisped (past)

[…] those crisped snaky golden locks
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

1609, Douay-Rheims Bible, 2 Chronicles 4.5,
[…] the brimme therof was as it were the brimme of a chalice, or of a crisped lilie:

1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, London: John Waterson, “The Description of Elizium,” The fift Nimphall, p. 44,
The Louer with the Myrtle Sprayes
Adornes his crisped Tresses:

[…] the well known rhubarb of our gardens, with roundish crisped leaves.

1800, Thomas Pennant, “China”, in The View of Hindoostan, volume 3, London: Henry Hughs, page 172:

For a time I was made to forget that my skin was dark and my hair crisped.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 23, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC, part II (Life as a Freeman), page 360:

The mere story of their adventures […] on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair.

1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 7, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 176:

(transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).

[…] he consider’d what an infinity of Muscles these laughing Rascals threw into a convulsive motion at the same time; whether we regard the spasms of the Diaphragm and all the muscles of respiration, the horrible rictus of the mouth, the distortion of the lower jaw, the crisping of the nose, twinkling of the eyes, or sphaerical convexity of the cheeks, with the tremulous succussion of the whole human body:

1741, Alexander Pope, chapter 10, in Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, Dublin: George Faulkner, page 82:

Phillotson saw his wife turn and take the note, and the bend of her pretty head as she read it, her lips slightly crisped, to prevent undue expression under fire of so many young eyes.

1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, New York: Harper, published 1896, Part 4, Chapter 3, p. 266:

[…] a slow torsion and crisping of all his nerves, beginning at his ankles, spread to every corner of his body till he had to shut his fists and teeth against the blind impulse to leap from his bed screaming.

1914, Frank Norris, chapter 15, in Vandover and the Brute, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, pages 242–243:

Ah, here was a fellow coming! And instinctively he crisped his hands that were buried in his pockets, and ran over to himself his opening words.

1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 27, in The Freelands,, London: Heinemann, page 252:

They [the shark’s teeth] were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.

1952, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Scribner:

(transitive, dated) To wrinkle, contort or tense (a part of one's body).


crisp

crispe (plural)
crispe (singular weak)
cripce (alternative)
crips (alternative)
crispe (alternative)
crysp (alternative)
cryspe (alternative)
kyrspe (alternative)

English: crisp

From Old English crisp, cirps and Old French cresp, crespe, from Latin crispus.


depilation

en-noun

depilation (countable and uncountable, plural depilations)

Hair had appeared in greater quantities where I didnʼt want it, and I couldnʼt keep up with the demands of depilation.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, pages 150–151:

Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing; hair removal.


heed

heedes (plural)
hed (alternative)
hede (alternative)
heede (alternative)
hedde (alternative)
had (alternative)
hade (alternative)
head (alternative)
heid (alternative)
hiede (alternative)
hide (alternative)
heyd (alternative)
hyede (alternative)
hyde (alternative)
het (alternative)
heved (alternative)
haved (alternative)
hefed (alternative)
hewed (alternative)
hafed (alternative)
haphed (alternative)
hived (alternative)
hyved (alternative)
hefd (alternative)
hefde (alternative)
hevd (alternative)
efd (alternative)
hevid (alternative)
hevyd (alternative)
heid (alternative)
heifd (alternative)
heyd (alternative)
heyfd (alternative)
hevod (alternative)
heveð (alternative)
heaved (alternative)
heaveð (alternative)
eaved (alternative)
heafod (alternative)
heafoð (alternative)
heafad (alternative)
hæved (alternative)
hæfed (alternative)
hæfedd (alternative)
hæfved (alternative)
hafved (alternative)
heofod (alternative)
hevet (alternative)
hefet (alternative)
heavet (alternative)
hæfet (alternative)
havet (alternative)
heafd (alternative)
heafde (alternative)
hæfd (alternative)
hæfde (alternative)
heifd (alternative)
heyfd (alternative)
hafd (alternative)
hafde (alternative)
hifde (alternative)
hyfde (alternative)

desctree

English: head, heed, hed (obsolete), 'ead (UK, eye dialect)
→ Japanese: ヘッド (heddo)
Sranan Tongo: ede
Aukan: ede
Saramaccan: hédi

Geordie English: heed

Scots: heid

Yola: heade, haade, hade

From Old English hēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”).

The head (top portion of an animal):
A head-covering; headwear or hair.

A start or origin:
The outermost extremity of something.


razor

From Middle English rasour, from Old French rasour, from raser (“to scrape, to shave”). More at rat.
Displaced native Old English sċierseax (literally “shaving knife”).

ncog

Occam's razor, Hanlon's razor

(philosophy) A conceptual device that allows one to shave away unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.


shaver

From Middle English schaver; equivalent to shave + -er.
In its meaning of a boy, lad, recorded since 1592, the word shaver has also been postulated to derive from Romani chavo (“young man”), which also gives us the modern slang chav, ultimately derived from Sanskrit छा (chā, “young animal”).

A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.


shaggy

en-adj

shaggy (comparative shaggier, superlative shaggiest)

shaggier (comparative)
shaggiest (superlative)

Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.

2023 January 6, Charles Pulliam-Moore, “M3gan is a midrange delight about the horrors of 21st-century parenting”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-09-15:


toupee

toupees (plural)
toupe (alternative)
toupée (alternative)
toupet (alternative)

1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.

cog

A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.


tress

From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.

nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.

1910, Theodore C. Williams, The Aeneid, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, Book IV Chapter 28:

Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

خُصْلَة

(by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.


tress

en-verb

tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)

tresses (present singular third-person)
tressing (participle present)
tressed (participle past)
tressed (past)


mai

For the connection between "first part of the day" and "day after this one", compare Germanic equivalents such as English morn(ning) and morrow, Dutch morgen, Romance ones such as French demain and Italian domani, and Japanese 明日 and 朝 (ashita).

(colloquial) Short for ngày mai (“tomorrow”).

the hair in front of a person's ears, sideburns


mai

vi-noun

(classifier cây, bông, hoa) mai • (枚, 梅)

cây (classifier)
bông (classifier)
hoa (classifier)
枚 (CJK)
梅 (CJK)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 梅 (“Chinese plum”).

vi-etym-sino

1999, Lê Trung Vũ and Lê Hồng Lý, Lễ hội Việt Nam, Văn hoá Thông tin, page 357

In times of old, the ceremony of selecting Imperial Examination laureates was organized in spring, to coincide with the blooming of the apricot trees.

Ngày xưa kỳ thi Hội chọn lấy đỗ Tiến sĩ được tổ chức vào mùa xuân, cùng với dịp hoa mai nở.

Ochna integerrima, a tree species (sometimes shrub) of the family Ochnaceae, sometimes called apricot in English


bush

From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish and Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic.

inh

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth’d gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion.

1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 65:

I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.

1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27:

But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 787:

I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right

2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:

(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.


waxing

en-noun

waxing (countable and uncountable, plural waxings)

(countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.


షాంపూ

te-noun

షాంపూ • (ṣāmpū) ? (plural షాంపూలు)


horen

horen (infinitive)
to horen (infinitive)
hore (infinitive)
hore (first-person present singular)
hored (first-person past singular)
horest (present second-person singular)
horedest (past second-person singular)
horeth (present singular third-person)
hored (past singular third-person)
hore (present singular subjunctive)
hored (past singular subjunctive)
hore (imperative present singular)
horen (plural present)
hore (plural present)
horeden (past plural)
horede (past plural)
horeth (imperative plural present)
hore (imperative plural present)
horynge (participle present)
horende (participle present)
hored (participle past)
yhored (participle past)
hore (alternative)
hoore (alternative)
horyn (alternative)

English: hoar (obsolete)

From Old English hārian; equivalent to hor (“hoar”) + -en (infinitival suffix).


mec

ca-adj

mec (feminine meca, masculine plural mecs, feminine plural meques)

meca (feminine)
mecs (masculine plural)
meques (feminine plural)

Unknown. First attested in the 14th century.


shampoo

en-noun

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

→ Basque: xanpu

→ Catalan: xampú

⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)

→ Danish: shampoo

desctree

→ Dutch: shampoo
→ Acehnese: sampô
→ Indonesian: sampo

→ Estonian: šampoon

→ Faroese: sjampo

→ Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo

→ French: shampooing, shampoing, champoing
→ Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
→ Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
→ Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
→ Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
→ Azerbaijani: şampun
→ Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
→ Lithuanian: šampūnas
→ Romanian: șampon
→ Turkish: şampuan

→ Galician: xampú

→ German: Shampoo
→ Czech: šampón
→ Hungarian: sampon
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ша̀мпо̄н
Latin script: šàmpōn
→ Slovak: šampón

desc

→ Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (shampó)

→ Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)

→ Icelandic: sjampó

→ Irish: seampú

→ Italian: shampoo, sciampo

→ Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)

→ Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: sjampo

Nynorsk: sjampo

→ Portuguese: champô, xampu (Brazil), (unadapted form) shampoo

→ Hunsrik: Schampu

→ Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú

→ Swedish: schampo

→ Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)

→ Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)

→ Zulu: ishampu

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.


shampoo

nl-noun

shampoo m (plural shampoos, diminutive shampootje n)

shampoos (plural)
shampootje (diminutive neuter)

→ Acehnese: sampô

→ Indonesian: sampo

Borrowed from English shampoo, from Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po).


permanent

en-adj

permanent (comparative more permanent, superlative most permanent)

more permanent (comparative)
most permanent (superlative)

From Middle English permanent, permanente, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanēns, from permaneō (“I stay through”). First attested in the 15th century.

there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

Nothing in this world is truly permanent.


permanent

She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 8:

A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

(collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.


permanent

en-verb

permanent (third-person singular simple present permanents, present participle permanenting, simple past and past participle permanented)

permanents (present singular third-person)
permanenting (participle present)
permanented (participle past)
permanented (past)


cana

Borrowed from Lunfardo [Term?], a slang term for police.

Que nos callásemos, que va a mandar a la policía.
-¡La policía no ! -dice Azucena- ¡ Rajemos chicas , que viene la cana ... !

1972, Osvaldo Guglielmino, Las leguas amargas:

(colloquial, Rioplatense, Bolivia) police force, police department


mullet

Wikispecies
From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).

moll

fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)

(especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).

بُورِيّ

fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)

(US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)


mullet

1994 US. Popularized and possibly coined by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

business in the front, party in the back

Coordinate term: bilevel

– Mullet head, don't touch the back
– Cut the sides, don't touch the back

– Maybe it's a curly fro.
– Maybe every day is bad hair day!
– Maybe it's a mullet!

2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406:

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.


mullet

From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).

Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or.

1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:

(heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.


mullet

Unadapted borrowing from English mullet.

mullet (men’s hairstyle that is long in the back and short in the front)


piranha

→ English: piranha

[piˈɾɐ̃.j̃ɐ]

[piˈɾɐ̃.j̃ɐ]

Borrowed from Old Tupi pirãîa, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pirãj, from *pira + *tãj.
Cognate with Nheengatu piranha.


shave

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

"[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.

1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream:

(informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.


شارب

ar-noun

شَارِب • (šārib) m (plural شَوَارِب (šawārib))

شَارِب (canonical)
šārib (romanization)
شَوَارِب (plural)
شَارِب (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الشَّارِب (definite informal singular triptote)
شَارِب (construct informal singular triptote)
شَارِبٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الشَّارِبُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
شَارِبُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
شَارِبًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّارِبَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
شَارِبَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
شَارِبٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّارِبِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
شَارِبِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الشَّارِبَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
شَارِبَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الشَّارِبَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
شَارِبَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّارِبَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الشَّارِبَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
شَارِبَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
شَوَارِب (broken-form diptote indefinite informal plural)
الشَّوَارِب (broken-form definite diptote informal plural)
شَوَارِب (broken-form construct diptote informal plural)
شَوَارِبُ (broken-form diptote indefinite nominative plural)
الشَّوَارِبُ (broken-form definite diptote nominative plural)
شَوَارِبُ (broken-form construct diptote nominative plural)
شَوَارِبَ (accusative broken-form diptote indefinite plural)
الشَّوَارِبَ (accusative broken-form definite diptote plural)
شَوَارِبَ (accusative broken-form construct diptote plural)
شَوَارِبَ (broken-form diptote genitive indefinite plural)
الشَّوَارِبِ (broken-form definite diptote genitive plural)
شَوَارِبِ (broken-form construct diptote genitive plural)

Derived from the active participle of the verb شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”).

أَغَايَةُ الدِّينِ أَنْ تُحْفُوا شَوَارِبَكُمْ
يَا أُمَّةً ضَحِكَتْ مِنْ جَهْلِهَا الْأُمَمُ
ʔaḡāyatu d-dīni ʔan tuḥfū šawāribakum

Abú 'ṭ-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (AD 915-965)

Is it the purpose of religion that you should trim your moustaches? / What a nation at whose ignorance other nations laugh!

yā ʔummatan ḍaḥikat min jahlihā l-ʔumamu


شارب

From Arabic شَارِب (šārib, “moustache”).

moustache, a growth of facial hair over the upper lip


لحية

لِحْيَة • (liḥya) f (plural لِحًى (liḥan))

لِحْيَة (canonical)
liḥya (romanization)
لِحًى (plural)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
لِحْيَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
لِحْيَةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْن (ar-infl-a definite dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual informal singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَانِ (ar-infl-a definite dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَا (ar-infl-a construct dual nominative singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a dual indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a definite dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a construct dual singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
اللِّحْيَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a definite dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحْيَتَيْ (ar-infl-a construct dual genitive singular triptote)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite informal plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite informal plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct informal plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite nominative plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite nominative plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct nominative plural)
لِحًى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite plural)
لِحَى (accusative ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct plural)
لِحًى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form genitive indefinite plural)
اللِّحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form definite genitive plural)
لِحَى (ar-infl-an-maksura broken-form construct genitive plural)


لحية

ary-noun

لحية • (laḥya) f (plural لحي (lḥi) or لحيات (laḥyāt))

laḥya (romanization)
لحي (plural)
لحيات (plural)


quiff

His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff, he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.

2012 September 2, Tom Lamont, The Observer:

(UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.


forelock

From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- + lock.

His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 300-303:

1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7440/pg7440-images.html
Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section XXXVIII:

This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]

1978, Edmund White, chapter VIII, in Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 135:

The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.


callow

en-adj

callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)

callower (comparative)
more callow (comparative)
callowest (superlative)
most callow (superlative)

From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German Low German kahl (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Swedish kal and kalka (“bald”), and Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”).
Compare the phonetically and semantically similar Latin calvus (“bald”), Finnish kalju (“bald”), Persian کل (kal), and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá), which, despite their close resemblance to the Germanic and Slavic terms, are likely false cognates as shown by Grimm's law.

cog

Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.

1878, Alfred Egmont Hake, Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings, page 25:

In fact many of our fresh water fish are somewhat Chinese in their tastes, for I have frequently used, with great success, the callow and hairless young of field-mice as bait for mascalonge, pike, pickerel, bass and sheep'shead, […]

1883, William Charles Harris, The American Angler, volume 3, page 20:

[…] while its congener of the land (A. agrestis) breeds in myriads over the adjoining meadows, hollowing out its nest just enough under the sward for its hairless callow young to be clear of the dangerous scythe-blade.

1890, Mayne Reid, The Naturalist in Siluria, page 5:

There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.

1916, The Living Age, volume 290, page 24:

This time it held a callow-headed baby in a pink frock.

These hands were marked of hard work and yet soft enough to tenderly hold the baby's little callow head.

2011, Altea, Happiness Was a Red Cadillac, page 17:


tease

en-verb

tease (third-person singular simple present teases, present participle teasing, simple past and past participle teased)

teases (present singular third-person)
teasing (participle present)
teased (participle past)
teased (past)
teaze (alternative)
teize (alternative)
tieze (alternative)

From Middle English tesen, from Old English tǣsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan (“to separate, tug, shred”).


pram

prȃm (canonical masculine)
пра̑м (Cyrillic)
pram (nominative singular)
prami (nominative plural)
prama (genitive singular)
prama (genitive plural)
pramu (dative singular)
pramima (dative plural)
pram (accusative singular)
prame (accusative plural)
prame (singular vocative)
prami (plural vocative)
pramu (locative singular)
pramima (locative plural)
pramom (instrumental singular)
pramima (instrumental plural)


sideburns

en-noun

sideburns pl (normally plural, singular sideburn)

Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.

named-after

Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

bakkebaarde

facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list.

2012, Amlynn Smith, Lost and Found, page 18:

He suggested a Rose Ballet in which he would use the G. V. Follies chorus girls, chiefly the ponies and mediums.

1941, Thoda Cocroft, Great Names and how They are Made, page 140:

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


pony

nl-noun

pony n or m (plural pony's, diminutive pony'tje n)

pony's (plural)
pony'tje (diminutive neuter)


brunette

Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.

And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.

1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:

The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.

1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:

Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.

A person, especially female, with brown hair.

سَمْرَاء

a person, especially female, with brown hair


brunette

brunette f (plural brunettes or brunetten, diminutive brunetje n or brunettetje n)

brunettes (plural)
brunetten (plural)
brunetje (diminutive neuter)
brunettetje (diminutive neuter)
bruinet (alternative)
bruinette (alternative)
brunet (alternative)

Afrikaans: brunet

brunette (brown-haired or dark-haired female)


brunette

bruinet (alternative)
bruinette (alternative)
brunet (alternative)


poll

polls (plural)
pol (alternative)
pole (alternative)

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adj), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”).
Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".

cog

The polls close at 8 p.m.

A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..

The main plate is formed in two halves, the upper plate having small sideplates, ear guards, an escutcheon plate (blank), and a brass plume-holder, as well as a hinged poll plate.

2005, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, Dirk H. Breiding, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480-1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 53:

(now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.


zazzera

it-noun

zazzera f (plural zazzere, diminutive zazzerèlla or zazzerétta or zazzerìna or (uncommon) zazzerìno m, augmentative zazzeróna or (more common) zazzeróne m, pejorative zazzeràccia)

zazzere (plural)
zazzerèlla (diminutive)
zazzerétta (diminutive)
zazzerìna (diminutive)
zazzerìno (diminutive masculine uncommon)
zazzeróna (augmentative)
zazzeróne (augmentative common masculine)
zazzeràccia (pejorative)


whisker

Middle English wisker, whisk (verb) + -er

One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

snor

long projecting hair at the sides of the mouth of a cat

(nautical) Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.

(statistics) A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.

Whisker

a graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

(metallurgy) A small tendril that forms on metal.


landing strip

Palm Springs International Airport
landing strip

(idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.


crimper

From crimp + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the climbing hold, + -er (patient suffix).

A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.

A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.

A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.


pixie

pixies (plural)
pigsie (alternative)
piskie (alternative)
pisky (alternative)
pixy (alternative)

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.

“Have you thought about a haircut? A pixie or a bob?”

2016, Susan Wiggs, Starlight on Willow Lake, page 114:

In a picture posted to Instagram on June 28, the stylish star [Lizzo] showed off her new, lighter brows and a blonde pixie that we suspect comes courtesy of a wig but can't be sure.

2021 June 29, Elizabeth Logan, “Lizzo Just Got a Blonde Pixie and Bleached Her Eyebrows”, in Glamour:


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “Chapter LXXXVIII”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

1981, Hilda Doolittle, HERmione, page 155:

Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either.
“No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

2007, Lauraine Snelling, Sophie's Dilemma, page 16:

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231:

(UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.


facial hair

From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.

ཞལ་རྒྱན (zhal rgyan, literally “mouth-ornament”)

Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.

1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post:

The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".

2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198:

Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking.

2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest, page 152:

Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible

2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 134:

Hair on the face of a human, such as the eyebrows of a man or woman or the androgenic hair (beard or moustache) of a man.


hairdresser

hairdressers (plural)
hair dresser (alternative)
hair-dresser (alternative)

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

haarkapper

professional for haircutting or hairstyling

berber

a hairdresser who styles or cuts men's hair

kuaför

a hairdresser who styles or cuts women's hair


barbo

eo-head

barbo (accusative singular barbon, plural barboj, accusative plural barbojn)

barbon (accusative singular)
barboj (plural)
barbojn (accusative plural)

Common Romance, from Latin barba. Distantly related to barto.

Meronym: haro (“a hair”)

Tiele, la sikaj viroj malĝoje ĉesas surporti turbanon kaj unuafoje en la vivo vizitas barbirojn por fortondigi la hararon kaj barbon.

2002 February, GMA, “Irlandaj sikoj razas sin”, in Monato, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

Therefore, the Sikh men unhappily stop wearing turbans and, for the first time in their lives, visit barbers to cut off their hair and beards.