chrome dome

Linebacker Carlton Bailey shaved his head last year. . . . Soon, the bald head became the rage among the linebackers. Now, just about every Giants linebacker has a chrome dome.

1994 July 26, Mike Freeman, “Pro Football: To Put It Baldly, Brooks Is a Leader”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-10-16:

Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson.

2004 July 19, Carolina A. Miranda, “Hair To The Chief!”, in Time:

[W]here Patrick's hair lay thick and fair, Carter's was dark and thinning; his scalp gleamed through his comb-over. Soon he'd be a chrome dome.

2010, F. Paul Wilson, SIMS, →ISBN, page 18:

(idiomatic, indelicate, potentially, offensive) A bald head; a person who is bald.

indelicate; potentially; indelicate; potentially


side whiskers

The first who entered was a little ribston-pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.

1904 February 27, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Black Peter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:


barber's

Synonym of barbershop (“place of business of a barber”).


mullet-headed

en-adj

mullet-headed (comparative more mullet-headed, superlative most mullet-headed)

more mullet-headed (comparative)
most mullet-headed (superlative)

They're so confiding and mullet-headed they don't take notice of nothing at all.

Well, it's enough to make a body sick, such mullet-headed ignorance!


barbigerous

barbigerous (comparative more barbigerous, superlative most barbigerous)

more barbigerous (comparative)
most barbigerous (superlative)

From Latin barbiger from barba (“beard”) + gerō (“carry, wear”).

1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel, Glasgow: R. Chapman, Volume 2, p. 118,
Profoundly thoughtful looks the sage, / Barbigerous, and priestly mien’d;

1972, Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography, New York: McGraw-Hill, Chapter 20, p. 348,
the author magnificently barbigerous and the publisher elegantly bearded but bald

[…] check out a portrait of the earl and you’ll see on his chin a barbigerous bulk that makes the poor fellow look like an Elizabethan cross between two Sams: Uncle and Yosemite.

2009, Barry Edelstein, chapter 4, in Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions, New York: HarperCollins, pages 123–124:

(rare, humorous) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.


combable

combable (comparative more combable, superlative most combable)

more combable (comparative)
most combable (superlative)

(of hair) Able to be combed (in a desired fashion)


unparted

unparted hair

unparted lips


daglock

From dag (“shred, strip of cloth”) + lock (“tuft or length of hair”).

compound

1859-1865, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.
Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep.


baldhead

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"


browless

en-adj

browless (comparative more browless, superlative most browless)

more browless (comparative)
most browless (superlative)


beau-catcher

From beau + catcher, suggesting that it might ensnare a young man.

(humorous, dated) A small flat curl on a woman's forehead.


mulletlike

mulletlike (comparative more mulletlike, superlative most mulletlike)

more mulletlike (comparative)
most mulletlike (superlative)

[…] we saw gannets plummet, guided by some sort of magical mud vision, and emerge with mulletlike prey held pincerwise.

1955, William Beebe, Adventuring with Beebe, page 142:

Resembling or characteristic of a mullet (fish).


shaveable

shaveable (comparative more shaveable, superlative most shaveable)

more shaveable (comparative)
most shaveable (superlative)

For my part, I think we ought to rejoice that this same beard is of real tangible shaveable hair.

1863, Jemima Montgomery Tautphoeus, At Odds: Volume 2, page 253:

In this new decade, diapers morphed into status symbols. The industry became overrun with a new generation of marketing geniuses. Youngsters not yet of a shaveable age,^([sic]) spewed forth designer diapers with the regularity of Old Faithful.

2001, Kim Bolton, Chris Wave, Conversations at the Girlville Diner:


dishwater blond

dishwater blond (comparative more dishwater blond, superlative most dishwater blond)

more dishwater blond (comparative)
most dishwater blond (superlative)

She had a pert, dishwater blond hairdo, kind of like a Doris Day cut.

2006, Pierce Scranton, Death on the Learning Curve, Elite Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 129:

Of a dark blond color bordering on light brown.


dishwater blond

en-noun

dishwater blond (plural dishwater blonds)

dishwater blond:

"Dishwater blond is just as attractive as it sounds. Get highlights."

2006, Christina Dodd, Trouble in High Heels, Signet, published 2006, →ISBN, page 21:

A dark shade of blond, bordering on light brown.

Russ tipped the magazine slightly to reduce the glare from the lamp. The dishwater blond in the picture smiled at him, Russ thought, in just the right way.

2003, David M. Pierce, Elf Child, The Hatworth Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 1:


frohawk

Thousands of black rock fans use Afropunk.com’s message boards to discuss bands, commiserate about their outsider status and share tips on how to maintain their frohawk hairstyles.

2007 January 28, Jessica Pressler, “Truly Indie Fans”, in The New York Times:

A Mohawk hairstyle worn by someone with afro-textured hair, with the crest generally standing up naturally.


bluenette

A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).

2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:

(slang) A person with blue hair, especially a woman.


netherhair

netherhair (countable and uncountable, plural netherhairs)

On the smooth white flesh of the most beautiful of women they saw the black curls of her nether hair, coiling and glistening, covering and revealing.

2000, Shifra Horn, Dalya Bilu, Four Mothers: A Novel:

Aside from the need to scrape the occasional strand out of his way—both his head-hair and her nether-hair—Koranen let her play with his mane.

My uh, netherhair is naturally minimalist, as they all are now. As everyone is now. Is that evolution too? Like men stopping having beards?

She couldn't quite bring herself to look at him—not with her face so red—but she asked, “Are your natural netherhairs this soft?” He choked again, coughed, cleared his throat, […]

(rare, nonstandard) Hair on or around the lower parts of the body, specifically around the genital areas; pubic hair.


map of Tasmania

map of Tasmania (plural maps of Tasmania)

From the perceived similarity between the roughly triangular shapes of a woman's pubic hair and the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Walking down the street I'm the lady - ah / Showing off my map of Tasmania

2011, Amanda Palmer (feat. The Young Punx), "Map of Tasmania", Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

(Australia, slang) The female pubic hair.


happy trail

His shirt has come dislodged from his pants, revealing a hint of his happy trail.

2011, E. L. James, Fifty Shades Freed, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, pages 424–425:

(slang) A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's abdomen from pubic hair to navel.


treasure trail

As he says good-bye, he puts both arms over his head and stretches big, causing his shirt to lift up a few inches, exposing the sexiest abs and treasure trail I've ever seen.

2006, Karyn Bosnak, 20 Times a Lady, Harper, →ISBN, page 73:

(slang) A vertical line of hair that extends up along the middle of a person's (usually a man's) abdomen from pubic hair to navel.


pike-devant

From pike (“point”) (from French pique) + French devant (“before”).


comb one's hair

en-verb

comb one's hair (third-person singular simple present combs one's hair, present participle combing one's hair, simple past and past participle combed one's hair)

combs one's hair (present singular third-person)
combing one's hair (participle present)
combed one's hair (participle past)
combed one's hair (past)

To straighten one's hair with a comb. (This entry is a translation hub.)


emo bangs

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He was supercute, with emo bangs over one eye and a hint of guyliner that would've sent my heart aflutter not too long ago.

2011, Megan Hart, Collide, Spice Books, →ISBN:

Bangs swept down over the forehead which hang in or cover at least one eye.


bebang

bebang (third-person singular simple present bebangs, present participle bebanging, simple past and past participle bebanged)

bebangs (present singular third-person)
bebanging (participle present)
bebanged (participle past)
bebanged (past)

(transitive, intransitive) To bang about.


bebanged

en-adj

bebanged (comparative more bebanged, superlative most bebanged)

more bebanged (comparative)
most bebanged (superlative)

Price sits down on a weathered tomb strewn with ivy and dead leaves, adjusts his blond bebanged Prince Valiant wig and glances at Ruddigore's Gothic arches heavily encrusted with skulls.

1982, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (U.S.), Emmy:


androgenic hair

en-noun

androgenic hair (countable and uncountable, plural androgenic hairs)

(anatomy) The terminal hair that develops on the human body during and after puberty, on the face, chest, legs, armpits, pubic region, etc.


manhair

manhairs (countable and uncountable, plural manhairs)

Darkling cheeks of undisguisable, sprouting manhair...

1973, Edmund Miller, Fucking animals: a book of poems, link:

1981, Generalist Association, Pulpsmith: Volume 1, link
Pus-filled stitches pocked the sweaty manhair like stones jutting from a Scottish moor.

The young men became crazy-wild because a straight guy nicknamed Pretty Boy had to sniff some dude-navel and triangular manhair between a frat guy's toned legs.

2011, Mickey Erlach, Boys of Chi Omega Chi Kappa, page 53:


terminal hair

terminal hair (countable and uncountable, plural terminal hairs)


vellus hair

vellus hair (countable and uncountable, plural vellus hairs)

Short, fine, light-colored, and barely noticeable hair that develops on most of a person's body during childhood.


chest hair

chest hair (countable and uncountable, plural chest hairs)

The androgenic hair of the chest (anterior thorax).


body hair

body hair (countable and uncountable, plural body hairs)

(anatomy) Hair of the body; in particular, androgenic hair, to the exclusion of facial hair and the hair atop one's head.


hair salon

The establishment of a beautician or barber.

صَالُون اَلشَّعْر

ṣālūn aš-šaʕr


bobby pin

From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.

[H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.


brush cut

He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull.

1999 April 4, Lance Morrow, “The Balkans' Heritage of Hatred”, in Time:

(hairstyling) A closely-cropped male haircut in which the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush.


headhair

headhair (usually uncountable, plural headhairs)

From Middle English *heed-heer, from Old English hēafodhǣr (“hair of the head, headhair”), equivalent to head + hair. Cognate with Dutch hoofdhaar (“headhair”), German Haupthaar (“headhair”), Danish hovedhår (“headhair”), Swedish huvudhår (“headhair”).

inh

[...] breakfasted before dressing, cleaned up; floors swept, dusted, things moved around and, replaced listened to the news on the radio, shaved carefully, going over the white stubble two times. "Funny how my headhair is dark, not one grey hair, you see, and how my beard, if I let it grow is all white. [...]"

[...] Brothers strut like generals spinning & tangling of hair entanglement of headhairs was among them [...]

1973, George Quasha, Jerome Rothenberg, America, a prophecy:

The midwife shaves the headhair of the child, takes it in a Phumk (vessel of Sal leave) and immerse in the water of Bonga-Pokhri.

1992, Buddhadeb Chaudhuri, Religion, Rituals and Festivals:

I could see my snipped-to-pieces and differentlengthed ^([sic]) headhair all over her knees.

If something else (gets in the ear) put the tips of the headhair in the ear as far as possible.

2009, Barbara Zipser, John the Physician's Therapeutics:


detangler

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(cycling) A device used with a freestyle BMX bicycle to allow the handlebars to turn 360° without tangling of the brake cables.


pornstache

If--and this is a substantial if--you can get past the neon rainbows, the jolly robots and the crooner with the Ron Jeremy pornstache on the cover of Danish duo Junior Senior's debut D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat, you're in for the most delirious, charmingly silly dance-pop you've heard since some jerkoff filched your Jackson 5 Greatest Hits cassette.

2003 August 14, “Listening Station”, in Las Vegas Mercury:

This was a far cry from Hall's original look, which resembled a 1970s adult film star. With his bushy hair and magnificent pornstache, Hall could have easily doubled for a muscle-bound John Holmes.

2007, R. D. Reynolds, Blade Braxton, The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 65:

It wasn't Bo's girlfriend behind the wheel, unless she had what looked like a '70s pornstache attached to her upper lip.

2011, Tanya Huff, The Wild Ways, Daw Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one worn by an adult film actor.


blondism

Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.

1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific, volume 2, page 276:

In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.

1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif, page 348:

(anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.


victory roll

(aviation) An aileron roll performed to celebrate a victory.


bed-headed

en-adj

bed-headed (comparative more bed-headed, superlative most bed-headed)

more bed-headed (comparative)
most bed-headed (superlative)

Amidst the aseptically-perfumed bare functionality, typifying a hospital ward, a pretty and petite elfin teenage girl stirs – tawny hair all tousled and bed-headed, lips full yet petulant.

2009, Garth P Toyntanen, Institutionalized 2, page 11:

William and a bed-headed Harry were joshing around at the altar like Luke and Han.


club hair

A hair, having a club-shaped bulb, that is in a resting state, prior to shedding


hair roller

A small tube that is rolled into a person's hair in order to curl it, making a new hairstyle.

bigudí

a small tube that is rolled into a person's hair


trichophobia

Rivenq (1974) used a modified systematic desensitization procedure to eliminate trichophobia in a 13-year-old male[…]

2001, Anton Došen, Kenneth Day, Treating Mental Illness and Behavior Disorders in Children and Adults With Mental Retardation, page 79:

Manifestations of delusional disorder on the scalp may be psychogenic pseudoeffluvium, delusion of parasitosis, or trichophobia.

2010, Ralph M. Trüeb, Desmond J. Tobin, Aging Hair, page 157:

A morbid fear of hair or diseases affecting the hair.


stylable

stylable (comparative more stylable, superlative most stylable)

more stylable (comparative)
most stylable (superlative)

Seven years since chemo and her hair was still not smooth and silky like it had been before. It had been so lush and gorgeous — and stylable — once.


halfro

He met us at the door with this big 'fro, or half an afro, halfro—he slept on his right side evidently.

2007, Richard Peabody, Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, Paycock Press, →ISBN, page 149:

But I think the pitchman’s Art Garfunkel-esque halfro is more offensive, since it looks different in nearly every frame.

2007 June 25, Tim Nudd, “Nothing says style quite like Members Only”, in Adweek:

One had a halfro and a Kobe Bryant Jersey that appeared to be unaccompanied by pants, toddler-sized Nikes peaked out from the bottom.

2013, Matthew T. Bell, “Earth Drum”, in The Elderly Kids: Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 21:

(slang, humorous) An afro hairstyle that only covers half the head or is otherwise of below average size.


donkey fringe

A long fringe of hair, longer on one side and plastered down on the forehead over one eye.


protomullet

Groups of glittery girls and boys with 1960s protomullets slid past homeless people too tired to beg for money.

2003 December 10, Annalee Newitz, “The high-tech black market”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian:

Byron on the other hand, had a protomullet viz Farrah Fawcett Fangs.

2005 January 8, marika, “Re: Navigating through hazards in Internet discussions”, in alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley (Usenet):

Able to bring together his solo songs and his Marillion career in an album and a live show that demonstrates the weight and breadth of his work, the shaven-headed figure that walks on stage tonight comes accompanied by gravitas, as well as the quirky charisma that has survived face-paint, parachute pants and that 1980s protomullet, to prosper in this more restrained era.

2006 February, John Hotten, “Fish”, in Classic Rock, page 96:

A mulletlike hairstyle which is shorter than a full-fledged mullet or which preceded the popularization of the mullet in the 1980s.


deathhawk

A mohawk hairstyle with voluminous teased or backcombed hair, common in the deathrock subculture.


pogonophobic

pogonophobic (comparative more pogonophobic, superlative most pogonophobic)

more pogonophobic (comparative)
most pogonophobic (superlative)

They are part of a noble pogonophobic tradition dating back to early Christian times, when clean-shaven Romans guarded Western civilisation against shaggy savages.

1997, Kharak Singh, Apostasy among Sikh youth: causes and cures, page 175:

[…] knows I'm pogonophobic. When I hired him he hadn't grown his beard. Nowadays I'm not important enough to fire him.

2001, Carole Morin, Penniless in Park Lane, page 61:

Did you hear of the pogonophobic barber, / Who suddenly decided that he wanted fame? / But on the stage he developed nomatophobia, / And couldn't bear to hear his own name.

2006, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition:


beardism

Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.

2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair, page 147:

When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.

2013, Janet Trewin, Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide:

(rare) Prejudice against bearded people.


shoulder-length

With her shoulder-length platinum blonde hair, she was easy to spot from afar.

(of hair, clothing, jewellery, or similar) Reaching the shoulders.


jaw beard

A thin beard that grows along the jaw and around the chin.


traumatic alopecia

en-noun

traumatic alopecia (plural traumatic alopecias)

(medicine) A condition where the subject pulls their own hair out, causing bald patches.


curled hair

I know that you could present our case to the committee as well as though we all went, and put it in its true light, so that they can not help but see that the proposed taking off of the duty on curled hair would not only be an injury to us as manufacturers, but more so to our workmen, who now, as you know, earn good wages, and at the same time the proposed removal of the duty on curled hair would not benefit them in the least, for as a manufacturer of mattresses I would say that were the price of hair mattresses one-half what they now are, which of course is impossible, it would still be beyond their power and purse to indulge in such luxury even should they earn the same wages as now;

1888, W.S. Gambell, “Tariff Statements”, in Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the Senate Committee on Finance in Connection with the Bill H.R. 9051, page 1146:

Reports in our local newspapers Tuesday, January 7, 1913, stated that Mr. Charles Delaney, of Philadeplphia, Pa., has been agitating before the Ways and Means Committee to place curled hair on the free list. Mr. Delaney, owner of the curled-hair works in Philadephia, Pa., and Toronto Canada, as well as South America, is able by employing cheap laber to manufacture a cheaper hair, and placing curled hair on the free list would mean an open market for him, thereby seriously ruining the curled-hair business in this country.

1913, Jacob Hannemann, “Brief of the Hair Spinners' Union No. 10399, Chicago, Ill.”, in United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6497, page 5376:

The purpose of the rules is to protect industry, trade, and the purchasing public from unfair trade practices in respect to curled hair and curled hair mixtures in the several forms and products in which it is used and passed through the channels of distribution and trade to users, re-sellers, and ultimate consumers. The curled hair used in the industry consists, mainly, of horse mane, horse tail, cattle tail and hog hair.

1940, United States. Federal Trade Commission, Trade Practice Rules for the Curled Hair Industry as Promulgated January 12, 1940, page 1:

Curled hair is used in the manufacture of mattresses and in upholstering furniture and automobiles.

1945, United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws-volume 80, page 14:

The hair of the manes and tails of horses, tails of cattle, and hair of hogs, prepared for use in upholstery.


afroed

(of a person) Having the hair styled into an afro.


pogonophobia

From pogono- + -phobia. First use appears c. 1852.

(rare) A strong dislike or aversion to beards or beardedness.


Philly fade

(US, informal) A hairstyle where the sides are faded at the temples.


cornrowed

en-adj

cornrowed (comparative more cornrowed, superlative most cornrowed)

more cornrowed (comparative)
most cornrowed (superlative)

(of a person or hairstyle) Having cornrows or being in a cornrow style.


gingerphobia

Last night, Tate staged a nice running gag on racism by creating a world in which the majority had an irrational hatred of "gingers", meaning redheads. Women of that persuasion were forced to hide from gingerphobia in Russet Lodge, a "ginger refuge".

2005 July 22, Ian Bell, “Those who pay the PR rarely get to call a tune as perfect as this one”, in The Herald, Glasgow:

There is a phenomenon called "gingerism" (prejudices against red-headed people) and "gingerphobia" (fear of red-headedness) in Scotland today.

2007 August 9, “Genetics Gets to the Roots of Why It Is Better to Be Red Than Dead in Cold Climates”, in Cape Times, South Africa:

Although Western civilisation needs new categories of thought-crime like a hole in the head, the idea of gingerphobia as a hate crime is probably no more absurd than many other categories.

2013 January 9, Ed West, “Why is gingerism so common in Britain?”, in The Telegraph:

(UK, informal) Fear, dislike, or hatred of people with red hair.


white-haired

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

Having white hair, especially from old age.


fur pie

Back in New Jersey, Christ, you should see Ocean City on Memorial Day. Fuckin' fur-pie everywhere. Wall-to-wall beavers. Two piece bikinis with little hairs stickin' out around the crotch.

1983, W. D. Ehrhart, Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, McFarland, →ISBN, page 123:

His face is maybe twelve inches from Sabrina's fur pie, and the guy is fucking snoring.

1993, Carl Hiaasen, Strip Tease, Knopf, published 1993, →ISBN:

Man: Porno Video Palace.
Amélie Poulain: I'm calling about the ad.
Man: You're over 18?
Amélie Poulain: Yes.
Man: Shaved?
Amélie Poulain: Sorry?
Man: Are you shaved? Fur pie doesn't sell.

2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant, Amélie, 01:00:49-01:01:07 (official English subtitles)


hair wax

en-noun

hair wax (countable and uncountable, plural hair waxes)

A thick hairstyling product containing wax, used to assist with holding the hair.


French braid

en-verb

French braid (third-person singular simple present French braids, present participle French braiding, simple past and past participle French braided)

French braids (present singular third-person)
French braiding (participle present)
French braided (participle past)
French braided (past)

Barbara French braided my hair—isn't it pretty?

1998, Mary Downing Hahn, As Ever, Gordy:

She French braided her hair pulling it straight back from her face.

2002, Kathryn M White, The Killer Wore White: “Who Wanted the Women Dead?”, page 15:

She French braided his forelock, and wrapped white tape around the bottom of each thick braid.

2012, Caroline Akervik, A Horse Named Viking, page 87:


Afro pick

A comb with loose teeth, usually used on kinky hair, and sometimes worn in the hair.


muttonchop

From mutton + chop. The hairstyle is named after the typical shape of these cuts.

He had a fresh complexion, eyes of that common uncertain shade of gray, and was closely shaven except for the incipient muttonchops on his ruddy cheeks.

1905, Willa Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra”, in Troll Garden:

(figurative, in the plural) A facial hairstyle consisting of sideburns without a beard.


fox evil

(obsolete) Loss of hair through disease; alopecia.


hairlore

"Smoot documents his ... ah ... problem, one might safely say, with a three-volume history of hairlore, in which it is shown that abundant hair has always symbolized vitality, virility, the will to triumph, and its lack, poverty and impotence.

1979, Robert Coover, Hair O' The Chine: a documentary film script; [ill. by Robin McDonald]., Bruccoli-Clark Layman:

1988, Remar Sutton, Body worry, Penguin (Non-Classics) →ISBN
Barbers are the priests of hair lore, so you may listen to what they've learned from any confessionals, but don't automatically take their word as correct.

1992, Norma J. Roberts, Columbus Museum of Art, Elijah Pierce, woodcarver, University of Washington Press →ISBN
More than a mere ornamental surface, hair and hair preparation are elements of an essential body of emic material referred to as African American hairlore, and it can be a near metaphysical index to one's very soul, being, psychology, […]

Baldness also has a further symbolic connection with one's restoration to grace. Giles Constable's magisterial study of beard- and hair-lore in the Middle Ages demonstrates that the shaving of one's hair could signify 'a separation from […]

2002, Timothy S. Jones, David A. Sprunger, Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, Western Michigan Univ Medieval:

[…] as much to my strong belief in the diaspora as a heuristic construct for interpreting much of African American expressive invention as it does to my larger, shared fascination for the powerful dynamic of hair-lore in African diaspora everyday life.

2010, Robert Baron, Nick Spitzer, Public Folklore, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 112:

(rare) Knowledge about hair; hair folklore.


bamboo hair

trichorrhexis invaginata
trichorrhexis invaginata


Brazilian wax

Getting a Brazilian wax will make you feel cleaner down there and improve your sex life.

2009, Molly Aldrich, How to Get the Perfect Brazilian Wax […] , iUniverse, →ISBN, page 1:

"I also have many clients, who schedule a Brazilian wax every four to five weeks, and not necessarily for someone special but for their own benefit.

2011 July 6, Svetlana Burckhardt, Confessions of a Brazilian Waxing Queen, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 52:

The removal of all or most of the pubic hair, sometimes leaving a small strip or triangle of hair on the mons pubis.


shavee

It must have been a serious affair for the last score of shavées. When the betting became loud, 6 to 4 on time, I am surprised the barber got his patients to sit.

1822, John Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ, volume 1, page 243:

The barber was shaving some one in the next chair to me, and he asked his patient—barbers and surgeons were one and the same in days gone by, so I do not see why the shavee should not be called a patient.

1888, The Book Buyer, volume 5, page 61:

(rare) A person who has their hair shaved off.


befur

befur (third-person singular simple present befurs, present participle befurring, simple past and past participle befurred)

befurs (present singular third-person)
befurring (participle present)
befurred (participle past)
befurred (past)

From Middle English *befurren (suggested by Middle English befurred), equivalent to be- (“on, all over”) + fur.

(transitive) To cover or clothe with fur.


Suebian knot

A historical male hairstyle ascribed to the tribe of the Germanic Suebi.


chaetophobia

From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “flowing hair”). By surface analysis, chaeto- + -phobia.

der

Andrew pulled it out of her reach. "You idiot, I suffer from Chaetophobia. You have no idea of what you've done."

(rare) fear of hair and/or hairy people or animals


tousle-headed

en-adj

tousle-headed (comparative more tousle-headed, superlative most tousle-headed)

more tousle-headed (comparative)
most tousle-headed (superlative)

2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Goren: a native Jerusalemite, a tousle-headed intellectual with the watery blue eyes of a dreamer, and a Jew.


dark-haired

dark-haired (comparative more dark-haired or darker-haired, superlative most dark-haired or darkest-haired)

more dark-haired (comparative)
darker-haired (comparative)
most dark-haired (superlative)
darkest-haired (superlative)

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:

Perhaps people felt by some form of symbolism or imitative magic that if the very first foot over the threshold was that of a dark-haired man, so might that hearth be safe for a whole year from the marauding Northmen. We listened to the chimes of Big Ben on the radio, and then as the last notes of the Old Year died away, Humphrey, who was the darkest-haired man present, ran to the door so as to come in and first foot us.

1968, Cherry Evans [pseudonym; Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange], Creatures Great and Small, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 88:

Maura was sixteen, with the Salter good looks. Darker-haired than her big sister Bridie, but she had the same soft grace.

2017, James Patterson with Alison Joseph, The Exile, New York, N.Y.: BookShots / Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 48:

Having hair of a dark color, usually dark brown.


silvery-haired

Alternative form of silver-haired (“having greyish-white hair”).


ginger-haired

having ginger-coloured hair, reddish-yellow or orangey-brown.


bald cap

A wig-like cap simulating the appearance of a bald or partially bald head, worn primarily by actors and clowns.


fleek

fleek (comparative more fleek or fleeker, superlative most fleek or fleekest)

more fleek (comparative)
fleeker (comparative)
most fleek (superlative)
fleekest (superlative)

Unknown; see on fleek, which may or may not have pre-dated this form. See Merriam-Webster's notes at "on fleek".

(slang, chiefly describing eyebrows) Alternative form of on fleek


on fleek

term-label

(African-American Vernacular, Gen Z, slang)

Lexico
Newsweek
The Fader
Urban Dictionary

Origin unknown. Early entries for fleek in the Urban Dictionary date to 2003 (defined as “smooth, nice, sweet”) and 2009 (“awesome”); perhaps as a blend of fly (“well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool”) + sleek. The term was popularized by a video posted on the online video-hosting service Vine on June 21, 2014 by Chicago-area teen Kayla Newman, under her username “Peaches Monroee”, in which Newman, who had just had her eyebrows done for the first time, proudly declared “eyebrows on fleek”. She claimed that the term “just came to [her] out of the blue”. Lexico suggests it is “apparently an arbitrary formation”.

blend

"I'm definitely pro-eyebrow, but don't go overboard. You gotta have your eyebrows filled in just the right amount for them to be on fleek," [said] Senior Raven Johnson.

2014 October 16, Ryan Ghisetti, “New brow-raising trend emerges”, in Gillen Martin, Zoe Ziegler, editors, The Arcata High School Pepperbox, volume 87, number 1, Arcata, Calif.: Arcata High School, page 30, column 2:

One day their weave might be “on fleek” (looking good) then the next morning they wake up looking like Django when he was chained, and that's a scary sight.

2015 April, Wanya Williams, “Keepin’ It Real or Keepin’ a Weave”, in Sarah Asch, Riley Kuffner, Holly Parkin, editors, The Tam News, volume X, number VI, Mill Valley, Calif.: Tamalpais High School, page 23, column 3:

Her hair was on fleek or whatever them dumb hoes be saying on Instagram.

2015 April 1, Deborah Collins, “TC”, in Down Bad, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

"I used to say Natalia looked fit,"” she [Emer] explains, "but now I'm like, 'Your eyebrows are on fleek.'"

2017 December 22, Annie Lord, “Exploring the Future of Makeup with the Highly-contoured Teens of Beautycon”, in Vice, New York, N.Y.: Vice Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-11:

(slang, of eyebrows or hair) Sleek and perfectly groomed or styled; well-groomed.


brohawk

Your brohawk.

2004, Andrew Schwab, It's All Downhill From Here: On The Road With Project 86, Relevant Books, →ISBN, page 193:

Other fighters started filing in: tribal-tattooed, creatine-slamming, brohawk-sporting dudes; […]

2009, Christopher Curtis, "Stop, drop and fight", The Link (Concordia University), Volume 30, Issue 16, 1 December 2009, page 22

Residents of the third floor of Memorial Hall and their “brohawks.”

2011, Noah Walker, "'Bro Night' in Memorial", The Collegian (Grove City College), Volume 72, Number 9, 11 November 2011, page 4 (image caption)

(slang) A Mohawk hairstyle worn by a bro.


beardly

en-adj

beardly (comparative more beardly, superlative most beardly)

more beardly (comparative)
most beardly (superlative)

Beards and nobility go hand in hand, so it will come as no surprise to most that members of the great lordly houses are wont to vaunt their beardly heritage.

2011, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Jack Passion, Poets Ranked by Beard Weight:

I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles. But my beard was not long then, barely able to brush the hollow above my sternum, and I snatched up the coffer without bodily or beardly harm.

2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196:

Of, relating to, or resembling a beard; beardish.


Clytie knot

It resembles the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

A loose, low coil of hair at the back of the head.


baby shampoo

en-noun

baby shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural baby shampoos)

A shampoo formulated to cause less irritation than normal shampoo if it gets into a person's eyes.


razor burn

razor burn (countable and uncountable, plural razor burns)

skin irritation caused by shaving improperly, or with a blunt razor


big hair

Hair styled so as to increase its apparent size above and around the head, associated with fashion of the late 20th century.


the curtains match the drapes

the carpet matches the drapes
the carpet matches the drapes#English

(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) Synonym of the carpet matches the drapes


the carpet matches the drapes

(colloquial, vulgar, humorous) A woman's pubic hair is of the same color as the hair on her head, i.e. her hair is not dyed.


pencil moustache

pencil moustache (plural pencil moustaches)

Coordinate term: toothbrush mustache

A very thin moustache that is kept trimmed short.


pixie cut

Shoulder-length, curled hair was ideal, although some women would wear braids tied with rubber bands for the games. Pixie cuts for women were still at least a decade away […]

2010, Mary Beth Klatt, Chicago's Fashion History: 1865-1945, page 111:

A women's hairstyle, generally short on the back and sides of the head and slightly longer on the top.


jasy

Possibly from jersey (“flax prepared in a certain manner, from which common wigs were formerly made”).


ballhair

(slang, vulgar, countable, uncountable) The hair on a man's scrotum, or an individual strand of hair from it.


bronde

bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes)

Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.

Coordinate term: blorange

What happens when beach blonde meets a rich brunette? You get a 'bronde'. A colour that is somewhere between the two extremes, bronde brings in the best of both worlds.

2017, "Hair Colouring", The Times of Oman 100, Summer 2016, page 33

(uncountable) A hair colour intermediate between brown and blond.


pogonic

en-adj

pogonic (comparative more pogonic, superlative most pogonic)

more pogonic (comparative)
most pogonic (superlative)

/pəʊˈɡɒ.nɪk/

From Ancient Greek πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”) + -ic.

(rare, humorous) Of or relating to a beard.


MPB

male pattern baldness
male pattern baldness#English

(dermatology) Initialism of male pattern baldness.


scraggle-bearded

scraggle-bearded (comparative more scraggle-bearded, superlative most scraggle-bearded)

more scraggle-bearded (comparative)
most scraggle-bearded (superlative)

"Danny transferred his passion to this sallow, scraggle-bearded tyrant who had glibly accepted Fronie's tarnished girlhood for the sake of her warm youth, and ever since had remained a cheap stingy brute."

1928, Harry Harrison Kroll, The mountainy singer - Page 139:


pedo-stache

Exception to the rule: the pedo-stache, or more recently known as the Crosby-stache. It covers nothing, and qualifies you instantaniously to be on a child offenders list.

2010, "Single Guy", "Dating Advice From the Single Guy", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), Volume 114, Issue 1, 24 September 2010, page 9

However, if you are a young male with a pedo-stache like M, sitting in a café while small children run around your legs is enough to make you feel like Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones.”

2013 July 29, M & G, “Otago Museum Café”, in Critic, number 17, University of Otago, page 37:

With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism.

2014 September 10, Meg Elison, “Dakota Fanning’s latest flaccidly flops”, in The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one from a stereotypical depiction of a male pedophile in the media.


bequiffed

Not my words of course but the words of bequiffed, vegetarian miserabalist^([sic]) Morrissey, who crooned the words on his bequiffed, vegetarian miserabalist^([sic]) 1984 song ‘Suffer Little Children’, a charming little ditty about the Moors Murders.

2008, Jon Holmes, “Simply the Bezst”, in Rock Star Babylon, Penguin, →ISBN:


grow out

en-verb

grow out (third-person singular simple present grows out, present participle growing out, simple past grew out, past participle grown out)

grows out (present singular third-person)
growing out (participle present)
grew out (past)
grown out (participle past)

(transitive) To allow (something, often hair) to grow unimpeded.


copstache

(slang) A mustache in the style commonly worn (or perceived as such) by a police officer.


bodyfur

(rare) The fur or hair that is on the main part of a person or animal's body.


devilock

An alternative hairstyle where the sides and back are kept short while the front is kept long and combed forward.


shock-headed

en-adj

shock-headed (comparative more shock-headed, superlative most shock-headed)

more shock-headed (comparative)
most shock-headed (superlative)


underhair

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designer stubble

Coordinate term: five o'clock shadow

A fashionable short growth of male facial hair.

stoppelbaard

a fashionable short growth of male facial hair


unhairer

A person employed to remove the hair from animal skins.


Afro-textured

(of hair) Having a naturally dense texture, like that of certain populations in Africa and the African diaspora, Australia, and Asia.


horripilated

horripilated (comparative more horripilated, superlative most horripilated)

more horripilated (comparative)
most horripilated (superlative)

/hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪd/

Fortitude of heart is the confidence and boldness of faith that is reverent but not horripilated, hopeful but not presumptuous, heroic but not ambitious.

2011, Domenic Marbaniang, “Rediscovery of Prayer”, in Beyond the Shadows and Other Essays, [USA]: Domenic Marbaniang, →ISBN, page 139:

Looking back on it, I do have fond memories of that journey—Iris in a swimsuit and horripilated flesh perched over a lake barely clear of ice, the smell of the pine woods and the intoxicating smoke of our cookfires, […]

2004, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, chapter 9, in The Inner Circle, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

It took Cindy ten minutes to coax the horripilated feline from beneath a car, his trust in her utterly shattered. But his attention span being only marginally longer than the life span of certain theoretical subatomic particles, he soon could not remember what he was doing underneath a Volvo in the first place, and was eager to be back in the warmth of his human's arms.

2005, Andrew Thomas Breslin, Mother’s Milk, Hoboken, N.J.: ENC Press, →ISBN, page 82:

Bristling with fear or horror; with fur or hair standing on end.


horripilating

horripilating (comparative more horripilating, superlative most horripilating)

more horripilating (comparative)
most horripilating (superlative)

/hɒˌɹɪpɪˈleɪtɪŋ/

I was sadly shocked, however, when he said he could prove that God hates the truth; the effect was horripilating.

1845, Edmund Hepple, Truth and Falsehood Defined and Exemplified: A Scene at Quintern Abbey, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by T. & J. Hodgson, Union Street, →OCLC, page 105:

Fear, the product of guilt, is a true night-plant. Like some of those gigantic fungi the botanists tell of, it springs up in the dark, and in an hour of restless tossing, sudorific, horripilating wretchedness, canopies our bed with a phantom toad-stool of gigantic size. The load that the conscience can jauntily stagger under in the broad light of day, […] will, in the gloom and silence of the night, wear its bearer to his knees.

[1873], W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo, chapter XVII, in Never Again (The Library of Favourite Authors, British and Foreign; I), London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 192:

Always something of a timpani concerto among symphonies—besides the famous solos in the Scherzo there is the horripilating tattoo that all but drowns out the first movement recapitulation, […]

1995, Richard Taruskin, “Resisting the Ninth”, in Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 235:

In Rachilde's fiction, however, scientists or doctors are associated with sexual knowledge that is both unwelcome and yet empowering, the sort of knowledge that makes a young girl's hair stand on end[…]. This horripilating experience is unwelcome, because it comes in the form of unwanted sexual advances at a time when the heroine is still innocent, but ultimately empowering, because it frees the heroine from any further vulnerability to seduction and gives her power over men.

2001, Melanie C. Hawthorne, “1900, December 10: Women and Education: In which Rachilde’s Mother is Admitted to the Asylum of Charenton and Some Deficiencies in Rachilde’s Education become Apparent”, in Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 190:

But what could you do about bombs dropped on you from the air? Especially in the dead of night. The idea of being killed in your sleep by an enemy you'd never even seen was horripilating.

2015, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Keep the Home Fires Burning, London: Sphere Books, →ISBN:

(figuratively) Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.


horripilate

en-verb

horripilate (third-person singular simple present horripilates, present participle horripilating, simple past and past participle horripilated)

horripilates (present singular third-person)
horripilating (participle present)
horripilated (participle past)
horripilated (past)

/hɒˈɹɪpɪˌleɪt/

/hɔˈɹɪpəˌleɪt/

From Late Latin horripilātus, perfect passive participle of horripilō (“(of hairs) to bristle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from horreō (“to bristle, shiver, dread”) + pilus (“hair”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).

der

Another volume of ghost stories by Mrs. [Catherine] Crowe!—as grim and horrifying as the "Night Side of Nature," which sends one to bed with a shudder, and lends an awful deliberation to the act of putting out the candle. These pages would literally be frightful if they were not at the same time fascinating. You never know at what turn in the narrative to look for the sudden bit of description, which is to thrill the nerves and horripilate the forehead.

1859 February 12, “Ghosts and Family Legends. By Mrs. Crowe, Authoress of the ‘Night Side of Nature.’ (Newby.)”, in The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume II, number 33 (New Series), London: Published at the office, 4, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 206, column 3:

When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment.

1979, Trevanian [pseudonym; Rodney William Whitaker], Shibumi, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers; republished as Shibumi: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 2005, page 330

A cold wind had blown through his seven-year-old skin, bringing with it the age of reason, thrilling his bones, horripilating its way up his spine.

1998, Richard Dooling, chapter 26, in Brain Storm, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN:

Miraculously, when he returned, […] no one had stolen, broken into, or vandalized the Saab: there it sat in all its silver magnificence on a lousy street in a rotten neighborhood, rainwater horripilating its voluptuous skin.

1998, James Kaplan, chapter 17, in Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, pages 155–156:

Phadampa Sangye gives us a brief characterization of the cremation grounds and the lands surrounding them in the introductory passage to Diamond-Songs of the Adepts, calling it "a region difficult for humans to travel, a village where ghouls and zombies wander, a place where the inhuman of the earth wander, the place of the action ḍākinīs, [where] Death's hair horripilates and the demons are dread-filled upon sight of it."

2005, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, “Creating the Treasury of Dohā Verses”, in Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

(transitive, intransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples.


Zapata mustache

en-noun

Zapata mustache (plural Zapata mustaches)

Named for Emiliano Zapata, hero of the Mexican Revolution, who wore such a mustache.

A large mustache with ends that curve downward.


hair loss

(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the head or body due to a medical condition.


bald spot

An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair.

禿斑 /秃斑

area on the head which has little or no hair


Marie Antoinette syndrome

The hair of Queen Marie Antoinette of France is said to have turned white after her capture.


Brazilian blowout

Brazilian blowout (plural Brazilian blowouts)

A method of temporarily straightening the hair by sealing a liquid keratin and preservative solution into the hair with a hair iron.


she-mullet

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(slang) A mullet (hairstyle) on a girl or woman.


uncombable

en-adj

uncombable (comparative more uncombable, superlative most uncombable)

more uncombable (comparative)
most uncombable (superlative)


mushroom haircut

en-noun

mushroom haircut (plural mushroom haircuts)


sex hair

(colloquial) Bed hair as a result of sexual intercourse.


man-bun

The woman – more a girl really – was white, with short, electric-blue dreads, and the man's face was buried beneath the duvet with only his hair visible – one of those man-buns that some of the young white guys were sporting nowadays.

Little girls love him. I don't get it. He swept his black A1S ball cap off his head, revealing his ginger undercut man-bun hair—fucking man-buns, man, fucking stupid—and plopped the hat on Cleo's head. It slid down and covered her face.

2016, Jasinda Wilder, Alpha One Security: Harris:

(informal) The bun hairstyle when worn by a man or boy.


bubble perm

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A permanent wave hairstyle full of small curls.


cavalry moustache

cavalry moustache (plural cavalry moustaches)

Now his dark-brown hair was greying and falling out, and his ginger cavalry moustache, so proud and fierce a creature in days gone by, looked as though the rats had been at it […]

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 208:

By now the well-groomed cavalry mustache, gleaming dome and heavily lidded eyes have become familiar sights in every Arab land. But except for an occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East.

1975 June 9, “Big Changes and a New Self-Confidence”, in Time:

A fairly long, full moustache, often either drooping or waxed to a point at either end.


tousle-haired

en-adj

tousle-haired (comparative more tousle-haired, superlative most tousle-haired)

more tousle-haired (comparative)
most tousle-haired (superlative)

Tousle-haired sheep-dogs slept before the door.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 326:

1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14, edited by Joseph McLaren, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, Chapter 4, p. 170,
Now my best friend and boon buddy was a tousle-haired Uzbek named Yusef Nichan.


floof

en-noun

floof (countable and uncountable, plural floofs)

Possibly a deliberate mispronunciation of fluff, a back-formation from floofy, or a blend of fluff + poof (compare the etymology of floofy).

(Internet slang, uncountable, endearing) Hair that looks fluffy, like fur from such an animal.


Hoxton fin

After the district of Hoxton in London, where it was popular in the early 2000s.


en brosse

Borrowed from French en brosse (“crew cut”).

He had a very square face whose sharp angles were accentuated by short, wiry black hair, cut en brosse and without side-whiskers.

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Diamonds Are Forever:

(dated) Of the hair: closely cropped so that the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush; in a crew cut.


gooseberry wig

(archaic, British slang) A large, frizzled wig.


twintail

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From twin + tail. Sense 2 is a calque of Japanese ツインテール (tsuintēru).

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) Either of a pair of unbraided tails worn on the sides of the head; an unbraided pigtail.

(in the plural) A hairstyle with a pair of twintails; unbraided pigtails.


Rapunzelian

en-adj

Rapunzelian (comparative more Rapunzelian, superlative most Rapunzelian)

more Rapunzelian (comparative)
most Rapunzelian (superlative)

While they ranged from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, from the Rapunzelian towers of Stokesay Castle to the Preraphaelite Gothic of Victorian Madresfield Court, the majority were of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries […]

1975, The Museums Journal, volumes 75-77, page 221:

The light plays over her glowing face, and her Rapunzelian hair cascades down her shoulders in perfect contrast to the hard, gritty surface of the walls.

2003, Clifford S. Ackley, Ronni Baer, Tom Rassieur, Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, page 128:

Of or relating to the fictional Rapunzel, especially in having very long hair.


hairdressing salon

en-noun

hairdressing salon (plural hairdressing salons)

An establishment where customers can have their hair cut, washed, styled or dyed by a hairdresser.


box braids

Hair braids characterized by "boxy" or square-shaped hair divisions.


guard hair

guard hair (countable and uncountable, plural guard hairs)

In reference to its function in protecting the animal from water, sunlight, etc.

(uncountable) The top layer of fur on an animal, consisting of longer, generally coarser, nearly straight shafts of hair that protrude through the down hair layer.


Hairgate

(informal) A 1993 controversy around allegations that Bill Clinton's haircut aboard Air Force One delayed air traffic.


Ned Kelly beard

Ned Kelly beard (plural Ned Kelly beards)

(Australia) A large, full beard, as worn by the bushranger Ned Kelly (1854-1880).


hair tonic

One of the best-selling hair tonics was Vaseline hair tonic for men, manufactured by Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (later Chesebrough-Ponds).

2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, page 375:

A liquid or gelatinous substance applied to the hair on one's head to improve its appearance in various ways.


face fungus

(informal, humorous) facial hair; a beard or moustache


Eugene wave

Florence […] saw herself and her friend, their hair in Eugene waves, chained pencils round their necks, young assistants of twenty-five years ago at Müller's in Wigmore Street.

1978, Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Fourth Estate, published 2014, page 3:

'Thanks to your natural curls you will never have to have a Marcel perm or a Eugene wave, think of that.’

2002, Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree:


hair bulb

The end of the hair follicle under the skin, in which there are cells that grow hair


hair remover

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Any device or substance that is used to remove hair from the body, such as a shaver, wax, etc.


slick down

en-verb

slick down (third-person singular simple present slicks down, present participle slicking down, simple past and past participle slicked down)

slicks down (present singular third-person)
slicking down (participle present)
slicked down (participle past)
slicked down (past)

His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:

To make hair flat by putting oil, water, etc. on it.


walrus mustache

en-noun

walrus mustache (plural walrus mustaches)

[…] (he saw the colonel of the mortar battery pass a complacent hand over his walrus mustache).

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 159:

walrus moustache
walrus moustache#English


swimmer's hair

A greenish discoloration of the hair, caused by chlorine in a swimming pool.


bee beard

A large number of honey bees depending from a person's face so as to resemble a beard; a common sideshow demonstration.


bearded lady

A woman with a beard, often appearing as a circus sideshow


unwig

en-verb

unwig (third-person singular simple present unwigs, present participle unwigging, simple past and past participle unwigged)

unwigs (present singular third-person)
unwigging (participle present)
unwigged (participle past)
unwigged (past)

Painter. Sir, ’Squire Lumpkin, the little, round, fine gentleman, employ’d me to paint white wigs, upon all the pictures, at half-a-crown a head. […]
Tony. Can you unwig ’em again?

1780, John O’Keeffe, Tony Lumpkin in Town, London: T. Cadell, act 2, pages 34–35:

[…] I remember well that one of his jests on this occasion was pinning the wig of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to the wig of that right reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of London, as these two holy men sat discussing the question of a pension on the Irish establishment, for one of the King’s cast-off mistresses; and when they rose and moved in opposite directions great was their dismay at finding that they unwigged each other.

1869, Edward Vaughan Kenealy, chapter 6, in Edward Wortley Montagu: An Autobiography, volume 1, London: T. Cautley Newby, page 124:

I was unwigging myself, wiping off the white from my chubby boy’s face, easing myself out of bodice and fardingale.

1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Carroll & Graf, published 1995, Part 1, pp. 14-15:

1844, Charles Waterton, “The Wren, the Hedge-Sparrow, and the Robin” in Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology, Second Series, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, p. 96,
[…] only the other day, in Dublin, a high dignitary of the law did exhibit such palpable partiality in a cause of “Victoria versus Repeal,” that he ought to have been unwigged there and then, and banished for ever from that arena of marked injustice to poor ould Ireland, and her patriot sons.

This view of forms and ceremonies never commended itself to Mr Gladstone. […] he knew “the sacred virtue of parchment and sealing-wax.” He saw that the same principle underlay the vestments of the Church, and the robes of the Judicial Bench, and the uniforms of Army and Navy […]. “How many men,” he asked me during the Parliament of 1880, “how many men would vote for unwigging the Speaker?”

1912, George W. E. Russell, chapter 24, in Afterthoughts, London: Grant Richards, page 217:

(transitive) To remove (someone) from a position marked by the wearing of a wig, such as that of barrister or judge.

The man is a good female impersonator, with a deceptive voice. He handles himself well and is a good dresser. No one in the line ever got more from removing the wig than does this man, who uses good judgment in selecting the proper moment to unwig.

1911 August 19, “Fifth Avenue”, in Variety, volume 23, number 11, page 22:

“I’d like to take a look at you without all that stuff on, so I could see what difference it makes.”
Grinning, I said, “Sorry, I can’t unwig in here.”

1989, Samuel Holt, chapter 24, in The Fourth Dimension Is Death, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, page 148:


frosted tips

From the similarity in appearance to frost.

Then again, they may then place restrictions on my hair such that I could not get highlights or frosted tips.

2014, Turney Hall, An Eagle Soars: One Man's Journey to Baldness, →ISBN:

“The dude's got a rainbow Mohawk with frosted tips,” my brother said calmly.

2016, Haleigh Lovell, The Slam (A Romance):

She just broke up with some total douche bag loser with frosted tips.” “Frosted tips? Like boy-band frosted tips?” “Like George Michael, circa 1988 frosted tips. She showed me his picture on her phone—total loser."

2017, Dennis Maley, Casting Shadows, →ISBN, page 195:

A hairstyle in which the hair forms spikes, the tips of which are bleached pale blond, forming a contrast to the color of the rest of the hair.

These are E. olitor, which is similar to E. melanogaster but smaller in size, with dark greyish-brown upperparts with pale frosted tips; and E. miletus, which is similar in size and colour to E. cachinus but with a relatively shorter tail and higher skull profile.

2008, Charles M. Francis, Priscilla Barrett, A Field Guide to the Mammals of South-East Asia, →ISBN, page 375:

Males are generally rich warm or reddish-brown with darker streaking on mantle and back, bright pink rump and underparts, and faint (not prominent) wingbar; long Supercilium to sides of nape is pale pink with pale silvery or frosted tips, with cheeks and ear-coverts similar.

2010, Peter Clement, Finches and Sparrows, →ISBN, page 277:

Their gray fur has a reddish tinge with whitish frosted tips, hence the name "hoary."

2011, Terence Barrow, More Incredible Hawaii, →ISBN:

White or light coloration at the ends of darker feathers or fur on a bird or mammal.

The frosted tips were used for dissection of subcutaneous vascular tissue, as they coagulate blood vessels better than the clear tips.

1993, Allen M. Putterman, Cosmetic Oculoplastic Surgery, page 319:

By utilizing frosted tips, a broader zone of necrosis is possible with facilitation of resection through fibrotic liver.

1997, Renzo Dionigi, Juan R. Madariaga, New Technologies for Liver Resections, page 8:

The frosted tips are for coagulation while the clear tips are for cutting.

2003, Keat Jin Lee, Essential Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery, →ISBN, page 782:

A type of surgical laser lens that has frosted edges in order to diffuse the radiation profile.


hair oil

en-noun

hair oil (countable and uncountable, plural hair oils)

A perfumed oil used in dressing the hair.


rug-headed

en-adj

rug-headed (comparative more rug-headed, superlative most rug-headed)

more rug-headed (comparative)
most rug-headed (superlative)

[…] Now for our Irish wars:
We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
Which live like venom where no venom else
But only they have privilege to live.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, 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 II, scene 1]:

(obsolete) Having shaggy hair, shock-headed.


beard-second

(humorous) A unit of length about the distance beard hair grows in one second: defined as five nanometers, or 10 nm according to some.


Newgate fringe

From Newgate, the site of a prison in London; named after its appearance, like a hangman's noose around the neck.


haircolor

en-noun

haircolor (countable and uncountable, plural haircolors)

/ˈhɛəɹ.kʌ.ləɹ/


moustachial

From moustache + -ial. Compare mystacial.

(zoology) Resembling a moustache; applied to certain markings on birds.


hairdon't

Blend of hairdo + don't, a play on hairdo.

"You're gonna mess up my hairdo." "That's a hairdo? Looks more like a hairdon't to me." "Yeah? And what do you think yours looks like?" "Great, as always."

1984, Charlotte White, A Hard Act to Follow, Ace Books, →ISBN:

"Maybe that's a new hairdo," he gibed, "but I think it's a hairdon't - your hair don't look good."

1990, Julius Nicholas Hook, The Appropriate Word: Finding the Best Way to Say what You Mean, Addison-Wesley:

He had a funny moustache and an entertaining combover ('Less a hairdo and more a hairdon't,' according to Dad, who should know) and many soldiers imitated his hilarious walk.

2013, Sarah Burton, The Complete and Utter History of the World According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9, Short Books, →ISBN:

“Looks really sketchy,” Claire Olivia said, looking in the rearview mirror to fix her beehive hairdo. Or hairdon't, depending on how you looked at it.

2013, Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

She has a hairdo that should have been a hairdon't.

2014, Brad Ashton, Stand Up and Be Laughed At, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

I'd sported a few awkward hairstyles before I left the WWE in 2005 (Why didn't anybody tell me the “too long to be short, too short to be long” hairdo was a hairdon't?), but my weeds were still at least longish back then.

2014, Chris Jericho, The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea, Penguin, →ISBN:

“That hairdo is a hairdon't,” Luke said, loud enough for all the boys gathered around him to hear.

2016, R.L. Stine, Monsterville 1: Cabinet of Souls, Scholastic UK, →ISBN:


fur up

en-verb

fur up (third-person singular simple present furs up, present participle furring up, simple past and past participle furred up)

furs up (present singular third-person)
furring up (participle present)
furred up (participle past)
furred up (past)


ahoge

(fandom slang, usually in the context of Japanese-style art) An exaggerated cowlick (lock of hair). It adds cuteness to a character and is usually indicative of character traits like airheadedness.


loctician

Consultation with a natural hair specialist or dreadlocks specialist (loctician) is recommended prior to starting the locking process.

2016, Crystal Aguh, Ginette A. Okoye, Fundamentals of Ethnic Hair: The Dermatologist's Perspective, page 44:

Of course, there are more informal ways to get and maintain dreadlocks than to book a more or less professional loctician.

2021, Maja Tabea Jerrentrup, A Twisted Style, page 68:

A hairdresser who styles the hair into dreadlocks.


cockernony

Her mother [...] sat by the fire in the full glory of a grogram gown, lammer beads, and a clean cockernony, whiffing a snug pipe of tobacco, and superintending the affairs of the kitchen.

1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 305:

1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act 1.
And so I will; for here are rosy partners.
Ribbon’d and cockernonied*, by my faith!
Like very queens.
Coil of hair on the top of the head.

(Scotland, obsolete) The bunch of hair folded up in a snood worn by a woman.


Rapunzelesque

en-adj

Rapunzelesque (comparative more Rapunzelesque, superlative most Rapunzelesque)

more Rapunzelesque (comparative)
most Rapunzelesque (superlative)

Characteristic of Rapunzel, especially in having very long hair.


jazz dot

From its popularity among jazz musicians.

The jazz dot or soul patch, the tuft of hair beneath the lower lip, is so common among “cats” who can play as to almost be considered a part of the saxophone embouchure.

2005, Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

[...] men with gray beards or homegrown dreadlocks or a sandy jazz dot on the chin, gathered around platters of organic turkey or homemade lasagna ...

2013, Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage, Graywolf Press, →ISBN:


hair powder

en-noun

hair powder (countable and uncountable, plural hair powders)

(historical) A cosmetic powder for dusting the hair, to remove grease etc.


cat fur

Cat fur isn't what causes allergies, so finding a cat with little or no fur won't help much.

2006, Marty Becker, D.V.M., Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Why Do Cats Always Land on Their Feet?:, →ISBN:

Which was past the bathroom, over rugs and fish bones and cat fur, to the last room on the left.

2012, Matt Haig, To Be A Cat, →ISBN, page 225:

Maybe it was because a breeze had picked up, blowing Dulcie's hair into her face as she listened to his excuses and ruffling against her skin like cat fur brushing by.

2012, Clea Simon, Grey Expectations, →ISBN:


barber chair

en-verb

barber chair (third-person singular simple present barber chairs, present participle barber chairing, simple past and past participle barber chaired)

barber chairs (present singular third-person)
barber chairing (participle present)
barber chaired (participle past)
barber chaired (past)

A severely leaning tree which is greater than 12 inches on the stump can "barber chair" by splitting prematurely during the felling cut so that the butt of the main tree trunk pivots upward toward the chainsaw user's head, if special felling techniques are not used.

1985, N.Y. Forest Owner, New York Forest Owners Association, page 193:

Figure 4-6 A shows a tree that barber chaired when the back cut was too low. Figure 4-6 B shows why it's called a “barber chair”.

1987, Dave Roberts, Pipe & Excavation Contracting, Craftsman Book Company, →ISBN, page 148:

This is because the trunk can “barber chair” before it falls.

2012, Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick, The Backyard Lumberjack, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:


hair restorer

A lotion claimed to promote hair growth.


dreadhawk

A Mohawk hairstyle with the hair in dreadlocks.


hime cut

From Japanese 姫カット, literally "princess cut".

(neologism) An Asian hairstyle consisting of straight, usually cheek-length sidelocks and a frontal fringe. The rest of the hair is usually worn long and straightened.


hair chalk

en-noun

hair chalk (countable and uncountable, plural hair chalks)

A substance made from chalk, pigment, and a binding agent, used for temporarily colouring the hair.


bottle blonde

Probably from the dye or bleach being supplied in a bottle.

(derogatory) A person (usually a woman) who dyes or bleaches their hair a shade of blonde.


disco perm

The choices included a Bobby Charlton special, a 70s Disco perm, Bald is Beautiful and last but not least Elvis is Alive.

He was neat, he was tidy, he had a substantial moustache, a big disco perm and he was lean and muscular.

2006, John Nicholson, Footy Rocks, page 52:

Officially, I started practicing therapy right after I cut my long hippie hair (the Jewish version of the Cher, “I Got You Babe” years) and got my first Donna Summers disco perm.

2008, Susan Pomeranz, Open Your Heart and Say Ahhh, page xii:

A hairstyle that was popular in the 1970s that consisted of long hair that has been permed into tight curls in imitation of an afro.


unbrush

en-verb

unbrush (third-person singular simple present unbrushes, present participle unbrushing, simple past and past participle unbrushed)

unbrushes (present singular third-person)
unbrushing (participle present)
unbrushed (participle past)
unbrushed (past)

Your hair is brushed very nicely, but just unbrush it a minute so that they can see the scar.

20th century, Supreme Court Appellate Division- First Department Papers On Appeal From Order, pages 72–73:

You can tease a wig by back brushing. If you want a little fullness only, the fibers should be held at a forward angle while brushing. For medium fullness, hold the strands straight up and back brush. Be sure you unbrush the teasing before you wash your wig.

1973, Ruth Drake, Redbook's complete guide to beauty, page 92:

I could also unbrush this effect. By lightly brushing over the distorted area (with the erase function), I made the vehicle's original shape gradually reappear.

Like every morning he shuffled into the bathroom to stick extra stubble on his chin and to unbrush his teeth.

2011, Andy Stanton, What's for Dinner, Mr Gum?:


TERF bangs

Originated on social media platform Tumblr circa 2014 from the (possibly jocular) association of women with this hairstyle and trans-exclusionary feminist views.

TERF bangs: My tumblr post critiquing modern beauty standards got over 100,000 reblogs, but it's so important to uphold these values in day-to-day life, too. I don't even know what TERF stands for!

2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67 (caption pointing to an image of someone with such bangs)

Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.

2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019

[…] tell your hair stylist at Brown Sugar you need a chin length blunt bob with terf bangs stat.

2019, "Assimilation Advice from a fellow SoCoDu", The Piranha (Trinity College, Dublin), September 2019, page 6

(slang) Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman.


baby bangs

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This is the famous Harold Halma shot of young Capote supine on a sofa, facing the camera with his baby bangs and seductive gaze.

2012, Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America:

On her feet were black socks with platform sport sandals, and her face was framed by John Lennon glasses and blue baby bangs.

2015 June 21, Amy Sohn, “Women who dress for themselves, and nobody else”, in Sierra Vista Herald, page C3:

Bangs are being reinvented this season in a big way, and baby bangs are all the rage during the warm summer months.

2016, Katelyn Bongiorno, "Hair Flair", Cliche Magazine, August/September 2016, page 38

Baby bangs will emphasise beautiful brows; […]

2019 September, Karen Campbell, “Big Bang Theory”, in Hampton Gazette, page 27:

(slang) Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs (hairstyle), especially when paired with a bob.


unpart

unpart (third-person singular simple present unparts, present participle unparting, simple past and past participle unparted)

unparts (present singular third-person)
unparting (participle present)
unparted (participle past)
unparted (past)

(transitive) To remove a parting from (the hair).


beardlet

In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the beardlet―or the imperial, as it is magnificently termed.

1837, Edward Duke, Prolusiones Historicæ, Salisbury, page 168:

the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face

1929, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 5, in Richelieu: A Study, Philadelphia: Lippencott, page 88:

Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms.

2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering, London: Vintage, page 58:


hairmageddon

Sassy tugged on a curl. It straightened and bounced back to its former loopy state. “This is a disaster. This is worse than a disaster. This is hairmageddon.”

2016, Lexi George, Demon Hunting With a Dixie Deb, unnumbered page:

This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.

2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard:

Even though we mostly now see people onscreen, by June we may hit an unseemly Hairmageddon. As for the DIY coiffure, Google “lockdown haircuts” to see how they’re going.

2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times:

(informal) An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control.


Charlie Chaplin moustache

en-noun

Charlie Chaplin moustache (plural Charlie Chaplin moustaches)

Charlie Chaplin mustache
Charlie Chaplin mustache#English

(UK) Alternative spelling of Charlie Chaplin mustache.


crustache

maybe its diff for everyone but i wish i could grow some sweet facial hair stylings, all i get is a crustache

2003 May 12, Doc $, “worst part of being irish....”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet), message-ID <b9pc4j$gnq$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>:

A narrow sliver of white-dude face stares out. Faint hair on his upper lip like a dusting of Oreo cooke crumbs: a crustache.

2017, Chuck Wendig, Thunderbird (Miriam Black), →ISBN, page 54:

You look like me before I got this crustache.

2019 October 19, “Comedian Marlon Wayans is performing this weekend at Liberty Funny Bone”, in WLWT News, Marlon Wayans (actor):


beardage

Manhood does not go by age, or bulk, or beardage.

1866, William Arnot, “Ourselves, and How to Make the Most of Them”, in Six Lectures Delivered In Exeter Hall, page 69:

Make sure you don't have to take a drug test the morning after East Van rock outfit Black Mountain brings its sludgy riffs and back-to-the-land beardage to the Commodore Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

2010 November 26, “Picks of the week”, in Vancouver Courier, page 37:

Petrovitch scratched at the stubble on his chin. "Could never grow a proper beard. Now, Archie's? That was serious beardage. […]

2013, Simon Morden, The Curve of the Earth, unnumbered page:

(slang, humorous) The mass or volume of a beard.


blue-chinned

I remember once the two of us were called over to the office of some blue-chinned TV producer in a pin-stripe suit to see if we had any angles he could build up for a program, [...].

1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:

Having remnants of thick, dark facial hair when shaved.


hairfall

(India) hair loss; the visible falling out of hair.


finger wave

A method of curling the hair by pinching it between the fingers and combing in alternate directions.


give someone grey hair

en-verb

give someone grey hair (third-person singular simple present gives someone grey hair, present participle giving someone grey hair, simple past gave someone grey hair, past participle given someone grey hair)

gives someone grey hair (present singular third-person)
giving someone grey hair (participle present)
gave someone grey hair (past)
given someone grey hair (participle past)

The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).

(idiomatic) To give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.


hairist

I just wouldn't go anywhere near a redhead. ¶ Now don't get me wrong and start calling me a hairist or something like that. Listen to what I have to say, then make up your mind.

1991, Paul Jennings, “Ice Maiden”, in Unmentionable!: More Amazing Stories, New York, NY: Puffin Books, published 1995, →ISBN, page 1:

(informal) One who discriminates against people based on their hairstyle or hair color.


French twist

She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld / She's wearing Ambush and a French twist

1982, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:

An updo hairstyle in which the hair is twisted behind the head before being pinned over the top of the head.


Judas-haired

From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.

One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]

1888, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, page 475:


space buns

An allusion to the wearing of this hairstyle by Princess Leia in the space opera film Star Wars.

Perhaps the farm boy clothing and the white dress and space buns hairstyle was a poor choice of attire for two people wanted by the Empire!

2018, Craig Stevens, The Star Wars Phenomenon in Britain, page 170:

Her hair was done up in two space buns with a few loose strands of hair on each side.

2019, Isabel Scheck, Ellie Everlasting, page 15:

[…] and enjoyed several rather 'highbrow' parties with her, making the acquaintance of the journalist and political broadcaster Andrew Neil, who nicknamed me Olga, because of my white-blond hair, which I wore in two 'space buns'.

2020, Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story:

(informal) A hairstyle consisting of twin buns worn on top of the head.


zanbara

(sumo) hair that is loose and dishevelled and too short to be arranged into a chonmage


electric shaver

en-noun

electric shaver (plural electric shavers)

Any of various electric tools for shaving.


half-up half-down

Describes a hairstyle where only a section of hair is tied up behind the head (half-up) while the rest of the hair hangs freely (half-down).


misopogon

/ˌmɪsəˈpəʊɡɒn/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισοπώγων (misopṓgōn, “somebody who hates beards”), which is incidentally the title of a book by Emperor Julian, from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”).

affix

(rare) A person with hate or contempt for beards.

(figurative, literary) by extension, contempt of philosophers and associated paraphernalia (wisdom, the philosopher's beard, etc.)


castorette

The fur of a beaver (or of some other animal treated to imitate this fur).


baby hair

en-noun

baby hair (countable and uncountable, plural baby hairs)

You shed your hair, too. Old hairs fall out nearly every day, and new baby hairs grow in their places .

1919, Eleanor Atkinson, The how and why Library:

He has not made the mistake of giving us a smaller horse, but shows us all the coltish attributes, the curling baby hair on the flanks, the slim gawky legs, and above all the concave face and[…]

1931, Lida Louise Fleitmann, The Horse in Art: From Primitive Times to the Present:

(countable, uncountable) Any immature or fine strand of hair, or (uncountably) a collection of such hairs. (Compare baby tooth, baby fat.)


bald as a billiard ball

en-adj

bald as a billiard ball (not comparable)

(simile, derogatory) Completely bald; having no hair at all.


bald as a bladder of lard

bald as a bladder of lard (not comparable)

(simile, archaic) Completely bald; having no hair at all.


begoateed

It is a graceful sight to watch, after the begoateed, behelmeted hero has walked out, followed by the chorus of warriors who shout “Revenge! Revenge!” without knowing what it’s all about, and for the modest compensation of a few pesos.

1932, Maurice Dumesnil, An Amazing Journey: Isadora Duncan in South America, Ives Washburn, Inc., page 137:

As in past performances given by him [Mitch Miller] in the Klein, the long-haired, bemustached and begoateed gentleman of 35, was enthusiastically applauded and was called back four times to acknowledge warm reception.

1947 November 28, Tere Pascone, “Connecticut Symphony Concert Features Mendelssohn Tribute”, in The Bridgeport Telegram, volume LVI, number 279, Bridgeport, Conn., section “Given Warm Reception”, page fourteen, column 8:

“We are all media now,” beamed Robert Phillips, CEO of Edelman, in whose swanky offices we were sitting, and whose posh canapés we had just bolted down. Indeed we are. Every half-wit in their bedroom. Every begoateed young wannabe gunslinger blogging away in Starbucks. Every nutter vomiting out vitriol, every parasite cutting and pasting and posting, every website “aggregating” the content paid for by someone else.

2009 May 21, Christina Patterson, “If you’re reading it, you should be paying for it”, in The Independent, number 7,052, London, page 33, column 1:


hairmonger

(historical) A person who traded in hair for stuffing cushions etc.


lion cut

The shaving or cutting short of most of a cat's fur, leaving fur around the face and neck.


baldy-headed

(informal) Having a bald head; lacking hair on the head.


Karen haircut

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From the use of Karen, beginning in the late 2010s, as a pejorative for an entitled middle-aged white woman. The association of a specific hairstyle with this type of woman began with a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

There was no misinformation from middle-aged women on Facebook with Karen haircuts.

2020 April 27, Vic Bell, “A Nation In Paralysis”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 14:

A woman with a Karen haircut pointed at a hall in the back […]

2020, A. W. Hartoin, Bottle Blonde (published 15 September 15 2020), unnumbered page

The blonde with the Karen haircut had terrible acne, which she concealed with makeup.

2020, Matthew Archbold, American Antigone (published 16 September 2020), page 117

(slang, derogatory) A hairstyle associated with entitled middle-aged white women, typically a layered, asymmetrical bob with blond highlights.


can I speak to the manager haircut

en-noun

can I speak to the manager haircut (plural can I speak to the manager haircuts)

can I speak to the manager haircuts (plural)

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From a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

But after a banshee of a woman with a 'can I speak to your manager' haircut howled at us (apparently this was "singing", though we're still yet to confirm it) for an hour we decided it was best to seek the comforts of the motel, its panoramic views of the roundabout and reruns of Midsomer Murders.

2016, Lachlan Sharp, "Lake Placid", The Reef (Beaumaris Yacht Club), Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2016, page 16

In the first ten seconds of an educational video, Pam, with her double-denim and 'can I speak to the manager' haircut, says ominously: […]

2017, Erin Christie, "Nobody Told Me", Grapeshot (Macquarrie University), Volume 9, Issue 7 (2017), page 29

A middle-aged boomer with a can-I-speak-to-the-manager haircut who has lots of opinions about lots of things but none of them feel all that well thought out.

2020, Portia MacIntosh, Stuck On You, unnumbered page:


I want to speak to the manager haircut

I want to speak to the manager haircut (plural I want to speak to the manager haircuts)

I want to speak to the manager haircuts (plural)

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To the obnoxious 70s-something blonde lady with the "I want to speak to a manager" haircut at Robert Plant on Sunday evening […]

2019 October 3, “I Saw You: Cheers & Jeers”, in The Inlander, page 46:

I recognized her short, I-want-to-speak-to-your-manager''' haircut, and her determined gait.

2021, Axl Barnes, Stillborn Gallery, unnumbered page:

Ike spied a silver BMW in the rearview mirror, driven by a woman with the most severe I-want-to-speak-with-the-manager haircut he'd ever seen.

2021, S. A. Crosby, Razorblade Tears, unnumbered page:

can I speak to the manager haircut#English

(slang, derogatory) Synonym of can I speak to the manager haircut.


blonde bombshell

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


raccoon tail

A hair extension with horizontal stripes, associated with the emo scene.


hair plug

(dermatology, surgery) A kind of hair transplant consisting of a portion of hair surgically punched out from one part of the scalp and positioned on another part.


hair clip

If you're looking to transform into an e-girl, go to your nearest Target and purchase some cute hair clips, pink eyeshadow, blush, and some chains.

2020 March, Meera Mathur, “Being an e-boy/e-girl”, in 1870 Magazine, page 52:

clip

clip to hold back the hair — see also barrette


slut strand

Describe your biggest haircut “sin.” How old were you when you sported it?
Slut strands in year 8

2015 May 3, Ali Thair, Debate Magazine, volume 2015, number 7, Auckland Student Movement at AUT, Vox Pops Confessions, page 45:

You know, the wet-look tendrils we affectionately referred to as ‘slut strands’ in the ‘90s.

2017 March 5, Meg Bellemore, “Bella Hadid Has Decided This ‘90s Hair Trend Is Back For Good”, in Elle, retrieved 2022-02-10:

Known for her signature look of huge hoe hoops and slut strands, the Westie gal can be identified by the presence of a dreamcatcher, which will either be tattooed on her body, or hanging from the rearview mirror of her 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer that smells of stale cigarettes and Impulse.

2018 July 27, Lady Avondale, “Dating the women of Auckland: From Westies to Shore Girls and beyond”, in The New Zealand Herald:

No updo or half-up style was complete without a pair of skinny ‘slut strands’ hanging on either side of your face back in the day

2019 May 8, RAM, volume 2019, number 3, Lincoln University Students’ Association, 1990’s, page 32:

You might have noticed that Kim, along with much of the field, competes with two distinct strands of hair pulled outside her helmet on either side of her face. […] [A]mong freeskiers and snowboarders, the style has another name. They’re known, affectionately, as “slut strands.”

2022 February 10, Madison Malone Kircher, “Why Slut Strands Are the Hairdo of the Olympic Games”, in Slate, retrieved 2022-02-10:

(vulgar, slang) A hairstyle that features two strands of hair pulled down around one’s face and the rest pulled back.


upsherin

In some Jewish cultures, a ceremony for a three-year-old boy's first haircut, or the haircut itself.


fuzzy-headed

en-adj

fuzzy-headed (comparative more fuzzy-headed, superlative most fuzzy-headed)

more fuzzy-headed (comparative)
most fuzzy-headed (superlative)

They were... fuzzie-headed.

Synonym of nappy: having tightly curled and frizzy hair.

(possibly offensive) Characterized by vague or confused thinking: foolish, dull-witted, drunk.


curtain bangs

Long bangs that part in the center to face away from the face.


air bangs

Light, sparse bangs, a hairstyle originating in South Korea.


wolf cut

A heavily layered hairstyle with a rough appearance.


hair fork

A large pronged accessory for holding a hair bun in place.


hair stick

A small stick for holding a hair bun in place.


hairbrushing

en-noun

hairbrushing (countable and uncountable, plural hairbrushings)

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krobylos

(historical) An ancient Athenian hairstyle in which the hair was rolled up into a kind of knot on the crown of the head, and fastened with golden clasps in the shape of grasshoppers.


untress

en-verb

untress (third-person singular simple present untresses, present participle untressing, simple past and past participle untressed)

untresses (present singular third-person)
untressing (participle present)
untressed (participle past)
untressed (past)

(transitive) To free (the hair) from tresses.


chin curtain

His generous sideburns dipped low enough to connect with his chin curtain, which made it look as though he were wearing a bizarre furry helmet.

(informal) A beard that grows along the jawline and covers the chin completely.


Shenandoah beard

en-noun

Shenandoah beard (plural Shenandoah beards)

A beard that is grown full and long over the jaw and chin, meeting the sideburns, while the hair above the mouth is shaved.


hair iron

A tool that uses heat to curl, straighten, or crimp a person's head of hair.


dirty blonde

en-adj

dirty blonde (comparative more dirty blonde, superlative most dirty blonde)

more dirty blonde (comparative)
most dirty blonde (superlative)

dirty blond:

Of a dark blonde color bordering on light brown.


dirty blonde

en-noun

dirty blonde (countable and uncountable, plural dirty blondes)

A dark shade of blonde, bordering on light brown.


hair mask

A cosmetic application similar to a facial mask, but applied to the hair to nourish and moisturize it.


two-block haircut

two-block haircut (plural two-block haircuts)

A bowl cut-like masculine haircut associated with some East Asian countries including South Korea and Japan.


peot

Borrowed from Hebrew פּאות (pe'ot) or Yiddish פּאות (peyes).

With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.

1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18:

'Manny? Sweet? Manny doesn't do sweet.'
'Every man does sweet, Max. Even weird ones with payess.'

He showed me the items in his den, or “trophy room” — the cardboard cutout of Sinatra wearing Jewish payos, the portrait of King made entirely of jelly beans, his Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.

2015 August 29, Mark Leibovich, The New York Times:

Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

pejzy

sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews


Bantu knot

A tight bun or knot of hair, part of a hairstyle having many such knots on a base of square or triangular partitions of hair.


hair twist

(mostly in plural) A portion of twisted strands of hair forming part of an Afro-textured hairstyle somewhat resembling short dreadlocks.


uncombable hair syndrome

(medical genetics, dermatology) An extremely rare structural anomaly of the hair with a variable degree of effect, characterized by hair that is silvery, dry, frizzy, wiry, and impossible to comb.


gingervitis

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Blend of ginger + gingivitis. Coined in the South Park episode "Ginger Kids" (season 9, episode 11), which aired November 9, 2005.

After all 96.4% of each of you Gingers infected with the Gingervitis disease know full well that you are unattractive creatures, which I believe results in your intense fear of exposing yourselves in public.

2008 07, Christopher G. Wilkinson, Rubber Room Semantics, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 223:

Perhaps a very old ginger person who hadn't quite lost all their gingervitis?'

2012 August 16, Twenty Major, The Order of the Phoenix Park, Hachette Ireland, →ISBN:

... gingerphobe and you don't like us We'll stand up to the fight if you wanna fight us But if you cut yourself you might catch gingervitis So maybe you should shut your fucking mouth Yeah, only a ginger can call another ginger ginger,[…]

2012 October 4, Amnesty International, The Very Best of The Secret Policeman's Ball, Canongate Books, →ISBN:

Gingervitis, according to Cartman, “causes very light skin, red hair, and freckles” and happens naturally because “ginger kids have no souls.” He compares reds to vampires, calls the ginger gene a curse, and encourages the class to rid[…]

2017 August 22, Erin La Rosa, The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(slang, humorous, derogatory) The condition of being ginger (having reddish-brown hair), treated as if it were a disease or affliction.


blonde joke

From the stereotype that blonde women rely more on their own appearances rather than their own intelligence, giving the impression that they are not intelligent.

A joke involving a stereotypical blonde-haired woman.


helmet hair

(idiomatic) An accidental messy hairdo resulting from the wearing of a helmet.


hair follicle

(anatomy, dermatology) An organ found in mammalian skin, residing in the dermal layer of the skin.


pique-devant

Probably coined in England, from French pique (“pike, spade (cards)”) or piquer (“to prick”) + devant (“in front”)

Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin like those of Turks, not a few cut short like to the beard of marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!) or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this behalfe as the tailors.

1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicle, London: Henry Denham, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 172:

twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant

1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter:

Wag[ner]. Sirra boy, come hither.
Clo[wn]. How, boy? swowns boy, I hope you haue séene many boyes with such pickadevaunts as I haue.

1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell:

I have seene the Cavalier you have so often spoken of, and I thinke you judge verie rightlie of him. Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant [in the French original: la pointe de sa barbe], and two Mustachoes: and therefore utterly to defeate him, there needes but three clippes of a paire of Cizers.

1638, Richard Baker, transl., New Epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac […] Being the second and third volumes, London: Fra. Eglesfield, John Crooke, and Rich. Serger, Letter 51, p. 108:

In the Sinister Chief is set another sort of a full Face with a sharp pointed Beard, and is termed in Blazon, a Mans face with a Pick-a-devant, (or sharp pointed) Beard.

1688, Randle Holme III, The Academy of Armory, Chester, Book 2, p. 389:

(obsolete, historical) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point.


claw clip

A hair clip with teeth that close to hold hair in place.


broccoli haircut

broccoli haircut (plural broccoli haircuts)

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Comes from the resemblance of the haircut to the stem and florets of broccoli.

The broccoli haircut, also known as the zoomer perm or bird’s nest cut, is similar to the indie-inspired looks of the 00s, featuring shaved or faded sides and a whole lot of volume and length on top.

2022 April 30, Jessica Lindsay, “The broccoli haircut: What is the men’s hair style and why is it so popular with Gen Z?”, in Metro Lifestyle:

Take, for example the wacky, whimsical, sometimes flat-out weirdly-named viral hairstyles and fads bubbling up amongst the youths: In a recent trend report released by Google outlining the most-searched Gen Z hairstyles, the top two were the "wet mop haircut" and the "broccoli haircut."

2022 April 7, Stephanie Saltzman, “The 'broccoli cut' and 8 other Gen Z hair trends, explained”, in Fashionista:

(slang) A type of perm haircut popular among teens and young adults that resembles broccoli, consisting of shaded or faded sides, and much volume and length on the top.