horsefeathers

The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.

The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."

1940, New York lumber trade journal, volumes 108-9, page 26:

In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.

1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968

Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles

1978 April, Joseph R. Provey, “How to reroof your house like a pro”, in Popular Mechanics, page 160:

To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).

2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192:


ponytail

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.

cola de caballo f rabo / hopo capilar / capital / piloso / caballuno / caballar


bangs

en-noun

bangs pl (normally plural, singular bang)

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

(chiefly US, Philippines) Hair hanging over the forehead.


bikini wax

The use of hot wax to remove pubic hair so that it may be easier to wear a bikini.


curly

en-adj

curly (comparative curlier, superlative curliest)

curlier (comparative)
curliest (superlative)


shearer

A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.


hairbrush

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair


blow-dryer

(US, Philippines) An electrical device used for drying hair.


scruff

en-noun

scruff (countable and uncountable, plural scruffs)


crutch

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.

der

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.


trichology

/tɹʌɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

From tricho- + -logy, from Ancient Greek.

The remaining chapters cover diseases of the hairy skin and summarize recent developments in laboratory and experimental trichology.

They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.


towhead

You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.

1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:

2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,
“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow," the towhead said.

2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,
The courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves.

A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.


tuz

And then thou kemb'st the Tuzzes on thy cheek.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:


copperhead

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.

A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.


beauty salon

A shop that provides hairdressing and beauticians' work.


grizzly

en-adj

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

grizzlier (comparative)
grizzliest (superlative)


barefaced

barefaced (comparative more barefaced, superlative most barefaced)

more barefaced (comparative)
most barefaced (superlative)

Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare + faced

Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude.

Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair).

Unmasked (not wearing a mask) or not wearing a face covering.


longhair

dismissed as just another band of longhairs at the height of longhair bands

A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.

A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.


longhair

I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.

(derogatory, music) Concerning or characteristic of classical music.


blondie

A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.


naptural

naptural (comparative more naptural, superlative most naptural)

more naptural (comparative)
most naptural (superlative)

Going naptural does not mean that you have to cut all of the chemicals out of your hair immediately.

2003, Ayana Hardin, Nappy Hair 101, Llumina Press, →ISBN, page 21:

Some with naptural hair elect not to use a comb or brush, but for those who want to detangle without only using their hands, a wide tooth comb and brush need to also be a part of your list.

2009 March 23, Laquita Thomas-Banks, “Basic Tools For Natural Hair”, in Clutch:

2012, Rod Hagwood, "Meetup for women with curly, kinky or 'naptural' hair", Sun-Sentinel, 14 August 2012 (used in title only)

(informal, of Afro-textured hair) Left in its natural state, i.e. not chemically altered (relaxed, permed, etc).


cowlick

From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.

We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.

2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.


loc

Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.


loc

en-verb

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

locs (present singular third-person)
locing (participle present)
loced (participle past)
loced (past)

Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

(informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.


loc

en-noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)


loc

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.


loc

en-adj

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

more loc (comparative)
most loc (superlative)


baldy

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!"

(informal, often derogatory) Someone who is bald.


baldie

(informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Plus the bird is endangered. So, yeah, I'd probably have a problem with sitting down to a plate of baldie for dinner.

1999 August 15, Staca Hiatt, “Re: Anyone ever tried emu?”, in alt.support.diet.low-fat (Usenet):

They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers.

2010, Bruce Squiers, “Winter's Majesty”, in Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Mikkel Becker Shannon, editors, The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories and Advice on Our Feathered Friends at Home and in the Wild, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:

Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Haliaeetus leucocephalus#Translingual

(birdwatching, slang) A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

"Baldies. Baldchin gropers. Tastiest fish I've caught this week," I replied.

(slang) The baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens).


hairbow

/ˈhɛə(ɹ)bəʊ/


powder room

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In reference to lavatories, an indirection developed under the influence of powder one's nose (“euphemism for use a toilet”). Compare boudoir.

(euphemistic) Synonym of half bath: a small room with a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.


greybeard

From grey + beard; men of advanced age would be expected to have a grey beard.

A powerful wave in the vicinity of Cape Horn.


peachfuzz

(rare, nonstandard) The fuzz found on the skin of a peach.


periwig

Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]

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

Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.

1607, Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy:

[T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]

1633, John Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury, ll 4-7:

The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.

1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus, vide "Frost"

From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]

1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:

[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(now historical) A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.


blonde moment

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From common jokes about supposedly dumb blondes.

(humorous) A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.


bushy

bushy (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)

bushier (comparative)
bushiest (superlative)

the bushy tail of a squirrel

Like a bush in having many branches that spread out densely in all directions.


mustachio

Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

A mustache, especially a large or lush one.


hairdryer

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(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.


tonsure

From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.


bandeau

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Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.

1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.

The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]

1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws:


soul patch

A narrow beard descending from the lower lip, above the chin.


spats

→ Japanese: スパッツ (supattsu)

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Long hair on front of lower legs of heavier horses (over the hooves), especially draft horses, notably the Clydesdale breed.

form-fitting shorts covering the waist to mid- or lower thigh usually worn for athletic situations, compression shorts


furnishing

With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.


beardless

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

more beardless (comparative)
most beardless (superlative)

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

cog

shall a beardless boy,
Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?

1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:

(by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.


pompadour

/ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/

From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.

(UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.


head of hair

All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)


hair gel

en-noun

hair gel (countable and uncountable, plural hair gels)

A hairstyling product in gel form that hardens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.


hair spray

hair spray (countable and uncountable, plural hair sprays)

A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.

定型水

hairstyling product that stiffens the hair


hair spray

en-verb

hair spray (third-person singular simple present hair sprays, present participle hair spraying, simple past and past participle hair sprayed)

hair sprays (present singular third-person)
hair spraying (participle present)
hair sprayed (participle past)
hair sprayed (past)

(transitive) To spray with this product.


Brutus

(historical) A hairstyle brushed back from the forehead, popular at the time of the French Revolution, when it was an affectation to admire the Ancient Romans.


cathair

Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form.

1848, William F[rederick] Wakeman, “Raths or Duns”, in Archæologia Hibernica. A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of Such as Are Easy of Access from the Irish Metropolis., Dublin: James MᶜGlashan, […]. William S. Orr & Co. […] London, part I (Pagan Antiquities), page 47:

There were probably other cathairs and duns on the Aran Islands which were not as sturdily built or not as well preserved as those that survived.

1977, “The Dúns of Aran”, in A World of Stone: Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran Islands, O’Brien Educational, published 1980, →ISBN, page 28:

‘On this island there are three cyclopean cathairs but their stones have been nearly all removed to build the modern little houses which are nearly in as rude a style as the Cahirs ever were.[…]’

1992, Theresa McDonald, Achill: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: Archaeology, History, Folklore, →ISBN, page 128:

An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork.


barrette

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.


tonsorial

(now sometimes humorous) Relating to barbering, shaving, or hairdressing.


styled

en-adj

styled (comparative more styled, superlative most styled)

more styled (comparative)
most styled (superlative)

His styled hair was not as attractive as he thought.


Iroquois

/ˈɪɹ.ə.kwɔɪ/

/ˈɪɹ.ə.kwɑː/

Attested in American English since the 1660s, from French Iroquois, Hiroquois (attested since the early 1600s). The ultimate origin is uncertain.
theories
Missionary Charles Arnaud derived it from Montagnais irno-kué (“terrible people”). Linguist Gordon Day notes that though no form irno "person" is attested, one is plausible (given iriniou and ilnu), but application to a non-Montagnais is unlikely, and kué is too short: the root is kwet-. Day finds support for a longer form kwedɛč ("an Iroquois", lit. "terrible, frightening person") in Pacifique's Micmac grammar, in "goetètjg", and sees "fairly good indications that the name [i.e. kwedɛč] was an ancient one for Iroquoian peoples generally", but then "irno kwedɛč" would awkwardly mean "a person, an Iroquois", which could not have been a usual term. Day theorizes the awkward phrase may nonetheless have been uttered by some interpreter and used thereafter by the unaware French, or alternatively the Montagnais may have borrowed an Iroquoian autonym whereafter Montagnais folk-etymologizers adapted it to resemble those words; for example, Mohawk i-ih rongwe (“man”) would have entered Montagnais as /iːrohkwe/. (Some earlier scholars proposed that an Iroquoian term like the Mohawk term was the direct etymon of the French.)
Linguist Peter Bakker alternatively proposes that the etymon is a Basque pidgin word (h)ilokoa "killers" (mirroring Algonquian names for the Iroquois), from hil (“to kill”) and a suffix -koa (“those of”) which may be the source of some other tribal names ending in -quois. Hilokoa, as Brad Loewen notes, is ungrammatical in standard Basque (Loewen suggests irikoa (“those of the walled town”) as an alternative etymon).

A member of a confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. Also known as the Iroquois League.


wash-and-wear

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(of a hairstyle) Not requiring styling or special tools; able to be washed and naturally air-dried.


tresses

a head of hair, particularly when the hair is of length


close shave

He used a new razor blade for a good close shave.

A shave that is very short or near the skin.


chignon

Borrowed from French chignon circa 1780, when the hairstyle was in fashion.

The chignon cannot be confounded with other artificialities which ladies put on and off.

1867, “Chignonology”, in Living Age, volume 92, page 761:

Madame du Barry could not merely be credited with inventing the chignons which bear her name.

1914 [1878], Madame Du Barry, London: J. Long, translation of La du Barry by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, page 88:

If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.


pomatum

en-noun

pomatum (countable and uncountable, plural pomatums)

From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomate, pomade, and pomace.

bor

There is likewise made an ointment with the pulpe of Apples and Swines grease and Rose water, which is vsed to beautifie the face... called in shops Pomatum, of the Apples whereof it is made.

1597, John Gerard, The Herball..., volume III, page 1276:

Pomatum, which is of much use to soften and supple the roughnesse of the skin.

1657, William Coles, Adam in Eden..., page 258:

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

[W]hen we were to assemble in the morning at breakfast, down came my wife and daughters, drest out in all their former splendour: their hair plaistered up with pomatum, their faces patched to taste, their trains bundled up into an heap behind, and rustling at every motion.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding[…]; to these were added a cracked pomatum-pot containing ink, and a scrap of paper, […]

1829, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Devereux. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

(uncommon) Synonym of pomade, a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel.

pomade

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


pomatum

en-verb

pomatum (third-person singular simple present pomatums, present participle pomatuming, simple past and past participle pomatumed)

pomatums (present singular third-person)
pomatuming (participle present)
pomatumed (participle past)
pomatumed (past)

(transitive, uncommon) Synonym of pomade: to apply pomade.


goldilocks

From goldy + locks. Goldilocks is a traditional children's story and its protagonist.

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.


wiglet

TV personality Shari Lewis, proud skipperess of a new Owens cruiser. demonstrates a bit of legerdemain with wiglets — small hairpieces that, properly twined, will solve nautical grooming problems.

1964 July 16, Motorboating, volume 114, number 1, page 68:


hypertrichosis

en-noun

hypertrichosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypertrichoses)

A medical condition of excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin. It may be mild or severe.


five o'clock shadow

five o'clock shadow (plural five o'clock shadows)

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1942, US, advertising copy written by Jules B. Singer of the Federal Advertising Agency for the Gem brand of safety razors, made by the American Safety Razor Company.

Men Wanted Without 5 O’Clock Shadow! To get on her wanted list, you must put your best face forward. Avoid “5 o’clock shadow” — that messy afternoon beard-growth. Stay face-neat all day long by shaving with a genuine Gem Blade.

(informal) A beard growth visible late in the day on the face of a man that was clean-shaven in the morning.

American Safety Razor Company
five o'clock shadow


raven-haired

en-adj

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

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

`Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.'

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:

Having hair that is very black and lustrous.

黒髪の

having hair that is very black and lustrous


twisty

twisty (comparative twistier, superlative twistiest)

twistier (comparative)
twistiest (superlative)

lost in a twisty labyrinth

"When he had religion he used to be always hammerin' up seats and summer-houses and things out of bits of twisty wood. Mad over that, he was."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 136:

Characterised by a twist or twists; twisting.


twisty

I was introduced to the panorama of twisties, barrettes, hair and scalp conditioner (basically hair grease), brushes for every occasion and narrow- and wide-tooth combs.

2007 March 22, Randal C. Archibold, “I Have Taken on My Daughter’s Hair and Won”, in New York Times:

A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion

The document is divided up into a number of sections controlled by twisties.

1998, Steve Oliver, Pete Wood, Lotus Domino Web Site Development, page 96:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether the content is currently hidden or expanded.


mouche

They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.

The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.

1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:

In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.

2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:

LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.

2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:

A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.

Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.


barbershop

en-noun

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

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(countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.


thatched

a thatched cottage


enterolith

/ˈɛntəɹəˌlɪθ/

/ɛnˈtɛɹəˌlɪθ/

Coined based on Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, entero- + -lith.


retouch

en-verb

retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)

retouches (present singular third-person)
retouching (participle present)
retouched (participle past)
retouched (past)

For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
And give more beauties than he takes away.

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:

(transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.

ретуширам

to improve something, especially a photograph


falsie

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement.


slap-headed

(British, slang) Having a bald or shaven head


bezoar

From Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.

der

A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.


maidenhair

en-noun

maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)

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He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's into the bowl

His fingers tore at her maidenhair. Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.

1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326:

Some said they'd seen her over by Death's-Door, with bloodstains on her dress, which was so white and transparent they were seized with shame and fear at the faint beauty of her breasts and the eternal modesty of her maidenhair.

1987, Pierre Clitandre, Cathedral of the August Heat, page 152:

She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.

1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116:

She turns and her small breasts are firm in the fading light, the flower of her navel, the darkening delta of her maidenhair and her thighs rising out of the water, the water tiny golden gifts against her skin;

2013, John F. Deane, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems:

(uncountable, poetic) A woman's pubic hair.


hat hair

But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.

2003 February 17, Elissa Gootman, “A Chill Most Bitter: Learning to Accept Hat Hair”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-03-13:

Beanie hair: Officially the worst hat hair to have: flat, fuzzy and drab.

2012 December 7, Zara, "The Measure: what's hot and what's not," Guardian (UK) (retrieved 13 March 2018)

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


shampooer

A person (such as a hairdresser) who washes hair.


moustachioed

Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.

2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:

(of a man or his face) Possessing a moustache or moustachio.


close-cropped

en-adj

close-cropped (comparative more close-cropped, superlative most close-cropped)

more close-cropped (comparative)
most close-cropped (superlative)

Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:


stiletto

en-noun

stiletto (plural stilettos or stilettoes or stiletti)

stilettos (plural)
stilettoes (plural)
stiletti (plural)

Borrowed from Italian stiletto. Doublet of stylet.

A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).


toner

toner (countable and uncountable, plural toners)

→ Catalan: tòner

→ Czech: toner

→ French: toner

→ German: Toner

→ Portuguese: toner, tóner, tôner

→ Spanish: tóner

Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper.

то́нер

powder used in laser printers and photocopiers

A hair product used to reduce brassiness and increase shine in bleached and dyed hair.


chinstrap

A form of beard that follows the jawline but does not cover the rest of the chin.

A miniature look-alike of the Canada Goose, with a partial white necklace instead of a white chinstrap.

2003, Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Alden, Birds, page 10:

The dark slate-grey plumage contrasting strongly with white 'chinstrap' is shared only by Blue Eared-pheasant, but their ranges do not overlap.

2010, Phil McGowan, Steve Madge, Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse, page 313:

A band of colour below a bird's mouth, resembling the chinstrap of a helmet.


bald wig

A headpiece worn usually by stage and film actors so as to appear bald on top without the necessity of shaving their scalps.


clean-shaven

en-adj

clean-shaven (comparative more clean-shaven, superlative most clean-shaven)

more clean-shaven (comparative)
most clean-shaven (superlative)

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a clean-shaven man; a clean-shaven face; a clean-shaven leg

A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.

1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”, in The Adventures of Gerard:

Having had hair (especially facial hair) shaved off, so that it is no longer visible.


red hair

en-noun

red hair (countable and uncountable, plural red hairs)


flyaway

Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.

1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43:

satellite television
satellite television

(television) A portable satellite television antenna.


firebox

From fire + box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).

(vulgar) A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.


unbraid

en-verb

unbraid (third-person singular simple present unbraids, present participle unbraiding, simple past and past participle unbraided)

unbraids (present singular third-person)
unbraiding (participle present)
unbraided (participle past)
unbraided (past)


flattop

From flat + top. Sense of “aircraft carrier” attributed to the message, “Scratch one flattop,” radioed during the Battle of the Coral Sea by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to the USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang.

Well school's not so bad but the summer's better
Gives me more time to see my girl
Walk through the park beneath the shiny moon
Oh when we kiss she makes my flat top curl

1959 Jerry Keller, "Here Comes Summer" (lyrics)

(US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.

(music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.

(cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.


depilate

depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)

depilates (present singular third-person)
depilating (participle present)
depilated (participle past)
depilated (past)

In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.

1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:


long-haired

en-adj

long-haired (comparative longer-haired, superlative longest-haired)

longer-haired (comparative)
longest-haired (superlative)

Of animals, having hair or fur with long strands.


cornrow

Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield.

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

Coolio, whose spindly and sprouting cornrows defined his look, went on to sell over 17 million records throughout his career.

2022 September 29, Eduardo Medina, McKenna Oxenden, “Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(chiefly in the plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.


bandeaux

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From the French bandeaux, the plural form of bandeau, whence the English bandeau.

A bandeau, a single band (or a set of such bands) for a woman’s hair.


curler

Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.

2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:

There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.

2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:

(surfing) A wave which breaks with a barrel


hair conditioner

en-noun

hair conditioner (countable and uncountable, plural hair conditioners)

(cosmetics) A type of shampoo product that aims to improve the condition of the hair, especially after washing.


neckbeard

A style of facial hair wherein the beard is allowed to grow down the chin and is trimmed to an even length over the entirety of the face.

Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.

2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:

(slang, derogatory) A socially-inept, male nerd, typically characterized as unkempt and misogynistic.

niskaparta

socially-inept, self-important male nerd


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:

(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.

(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.

(Australian slang) A person with ginger hair.


hair-tidy

1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)

(historical) A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.


blow-dry

en-verb

blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)

blow-dries (present singular third-person)
blow-drying (participle present)
blow-dried (participle past)
blow-dried (past)


calvous

en-adj

calvous (comparative more calvous, superlative most calvous)

more calvous (comparative)
most calvous (superlative)

67th Berlin International Film Festival
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Borrowed from Latin calvus (“bald, hairless”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂wós, from *kalw- (“bald; naked”) + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting possession or presence of a quality).

suffix

Hubert had given me his passport, in great excitement. [...] Admittedly most old, bloated, calvous Germans could double for me, and even if he hadn't been doppelganger material, with the beard I had started growing and the two black eyes, you'd need x-rays to spot the difference.

1994, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, Edinburgh: Polygon Books, →ISBN; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997, →ISBN, page 119:

(formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.


bewhiskered

en-adj

bewhiskered (comparative more bewhiskered, superlative most bewhiskered)

more bewhiskered (comparative)
most bewhiskered (superlative)

From be- + whiskered or bewhisker + -ed.

[…] another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, […]

1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:


pageboy

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A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.

brudedreng

young male attendant at a wedding ceremony


uncombed

uncombed (comparative more uncombed, superlative most uncombed)

more uncombed (comparative)
most uncombed (superlative)


pubescence

en-noun

pubescence (countable and uncountable, plural pubescences)

The state of being in or reaching puberty.


let one's hair down

en-verb

let one's hair down (third-person singular simple present lets one's hair down, present participle letting one's hair down, simple past and past participle let one's hair down)

lets one's hair down (present singular third-person)
letting one's hair down (participle present)
let one's hair down (participle past)
let one's hair down (past)

Cut loose, let your hair down honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on let's go

1962, Roy Bennett, Sid Tepper (lyrics and music), “Relax”, performed by Elvis Presley:

All week long I've been keepin' my cool / But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues

1982, George Jackson (lyrics and music), “Down Home Blues”, performed by Z. Z. Hill:


hair-raising

en-adj

hair-raising (comparative more hair-raising, superlative most hair-raising)

more hair-raising (comparative)
most hair-raising (superlative)


flatiron

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elflock

Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]

1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278:

All went unshaven, and many had long, filthy elf-locks hanging about their faces, and ragged beards reaching to their girdles.

1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:

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

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

(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.


fair-haired

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

more fair-haired (comparative)
fairer-haired (comparative)
most fair-haired (superlative)
fairest-haired (superlative)

Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.

1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:


riah

For quotations using this term, see Citations:riah.


shagged

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

more shagged (comparative)
most shagged (superlative)

From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

inh

(rare) Having or covered with shaggy hair.

(obsolete) Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.

Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.


Goldie

A female given name from English for a girl with golden hair, mostly American usage around 1900. It was further popularized by actress Goldie Hawn


furred

en-adj

furred (comparative more furred, superlative most furred)

more furred (comparative)
most furred (superlative)


Prince Valiant

This was the hairstyle of the protagonist of the US comic strip Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur.

(US) A hairstyle similar to a longer pageboy


depilatory

/dəˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/

When Bilkis Queen of Sheba discovered her legs by lifting her robe (Koran xxvii.), Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils had by a depilatory removed the hair.

1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume IV, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

A preparation that removes hair from the body.


bedhead

en-noun

bedhead (countable and uncountable, plural bedheads)

From bed + head. Superficially similar to, but etymologically distinguishable from, forms built from -head.

Hand was looking flustered with me, though he was still only half-awake and his bedhead was ridiculous […]

2002, Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Vintage Canada, published 2011:

She always came to the office late because she was an INSOMNIAC, lewd grin, bedhead, and miniskirt, the CEO laughing his head off down the hallway, old word style, but new to have this dirty kind of hilarious brunette.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

(colloquial) The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.


hirsuteness

The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.


hairiness

hairiness (countable and uncountable, plural hairinesses)

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Observ. XXVI,
We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the Garden kind; others much longer, and many growing together, as it were in clusters, and cover'd all over with a brown short hairiness, so fine, that if any of it be rubb'd, or fall on the back of ones hand, or other tender parts of the skin, it will cause a kind of itching […]

The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):

Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.

1804, William Robert Broughton, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Book I, p. 92, footnote:

Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.

1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:


towheaded

en-adj

towheaded (comparative more towheaded, superlative most towheaded)

more towheaded (comparative)
most towheaded (superlative)


hairlike

hairlike (comparative more hairlike, superlative most hairlike)

more hairlike (comparative)
most hairlike (superlative)

Near-synonym: furlike

The moss grew in a hairlike mass over the rocks.

Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.


mutton-chop whiskers

To judge from the photos Gerald's hippy phase had reached its counter-cultural extreme in a pair of mutton-chop whiskers and a floral tie.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Synonym of muttonchops (“facial hairstyle”)


gelled

In May, I go to a gastroenterologist. He has a signet pinkie ring and gelled hair.

2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:


ringlet

From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).

(entomology) Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.


hair extension

desc

→ Japanese: エクステンション

→ Japanese: エクステンション

A length of hair which is attached to one's normal hair to make it longer.


shorthair

Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, slender body and large head.


furball

A ball of fur, especially one coughed up by a cat.


hirsutism

en-noun

hirsutism (usually uncountable, plural hirsutisms)

(dermatology) Excessive and increased hair growth in locations where terminal hair is normally minimal or absent.


handlebar moustache

handlebar moustache (plural handlebar moustaches)

A pleasant, dapperly dressed man with a handlebar moustache that he regularly twists and tugs...

2003, Christopher Phillips, Socrates café: a fresh taste of philosophy, page 103:

A broad moustache worn long and curled up at the sides.


molestache

> rivers looks like a kid toucher.
rivers definitely has the molestache action goin on.

2001 January 27, Scott “devotion100”, “Re: Weezer's mustaches”, in alt.music.weezer (Usenet):

I think that this level of arrogant cynicism is very instructive...you know...like how watching a mulleted drunk in a wife-beater, boxers and a molestache smacking his kids on COPS teaches us about how NOT to raise a family.

2002 December 28, C. Lee, “Re: i wonder what kind of movie we would come up with”, in alt.horror (Usenet):

2004 April 1, Douglas C. Niedermeyer (pseudonym), “Scary molestache completes coaching staff”, in the Daily Nebraskan, 2004 April 1 joke issue.

Also known as the “molestache,” this sexified upper lip hair is often seen on men wearing short shorts, Blue Blocker sunglasses, lots of gold jewelry, […]

2005 March 10, Bryce Donovan, “Easy ladies, there's enough Bryce to go around”, in The Post and Courier, Evening Post Publishing Company:

(He earned the name Mario Mugshot in my circle because he looks like Mario from Super Mario Bros, and he has a molestache and messy hair like you would see on a child molester in a mugshot)

2005 May 26, Thomas, “Re: Pistons will win Game 3”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.det-pistons (Usenet):

2007 January 6, “Gurriato”, “Re: Estamos todos manipulados” (“Re: We are all being manipulated”), in alt.usage.spanish and other groups, Usenet,
He wears a britstache (also called a molestache, a combination of the words mustache and molest). El Renacuajo's mustache is scrawny and creepy, much like most wearers of the molestache.

(slang, rare) A type of scrawny or unkempt mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.


hair dye

hair dye (countable and uncountable, plural hair dyes)

Any of various materials used to dye hair on the head.

染髮劑 /染发剂

any of various materials used to dye hair on the head


madarosis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαδάρωσις (madárōsis, “baldness, especially of the eyelids”).

bor+

(medicine, dermatology) The loss of eyebrows or eyelashes.


madarotic

From madarosis, from Ancient Greek μαδάρωσις (madárōsis, “baldness, especially of the eyelids”).

uder

(medicine, rare) Of or pertaining to the loss of eyebrows or eyelashes.


undercoat

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A layer of short hairs underneath the longer ones of an animal's fur


slick back

en-verb

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

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

His hair was slicked back with gel.

I can see you / Your brown skin shining in the sun / You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby

1984, “The Boys of Summer”, in Don Henley (lyrics), Building the Perfect Beast:

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


bingle

From bing (“thump, sudden bang”) + -le (diminutive suffix).

af

It is always an advantage if you have a sexy car, but if you pick her up in a rusty Datsun 180B you may as well say goodnight.[…]There is also the worst-case scenario of being involved in a bingle. If this happens you will definitely be finished and she will probably sneak off on you if she manages to escape injury.

2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club, page 144:

"I, uh . . . " I managed, "I seem to have had a bit of a bingle." I pointed a thumb behind me at the car.

2006, Lee Battersby, A Stone to Mark My Passing: Through Soft Air, page 138:

‘But you've still got your father′s car haven′t you?’
‘No. Had a bingle in it the other night, nothing major. I just hope to hell it′s fixed before he finds out.[…]’

2010, Felicity Young, Take Out, page 163:

(Australia, informal) A minor collision, especially between motor vehicles.


bingle

en-verb

bingle (third-person singular simple present bingles, present participle bingling, simple past and past participle bingled)

bingles (present singular third-person)
bingling (participle present)
bingled (participle past)
bingled (past)


bingle

(baseball, slang) A base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base.


bingle

(baseball, slang) To achieve a base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base.


woolly-headed

en-adj

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

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

(possibly offensive) Synonym of fuzzy-headed: characterized by vague or confused thinking, dull-witted.


curlies

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When the condom gets caught on your curlies while you're trying to roll it off.

2001 December 1, Demetrios Hung, APA, “First helmet laws, now this...”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet):


salt and pepper

His beard, once black, was now salt and pepper.

the salt-and-pepper effect on an untuned television screen


frizzies

(colloquial) Unkempt curly hair, especially of women.


pomate

From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”) either directly or via slightly earlier English pomatum, from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomatum, pomade, and pomace.

der

Patient he sits, while Master Puff, with pomate, tongs, and powder-pluff... gives each hair its proper station...

1774, Archibald Bruce, The Kirkiad..., Canto I, 18:

(now chiefly Scotland) Synonym of pomade, a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel.


haire

en-noun

haire (countable and uncountable, plural haires)


cymotrichy

(anthropology) The state of having wavy hair.


drabber

1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam

(obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.


stand on end

en-verb

stand on end (third-person singular simple present stands on end, present participle standing on end, simple past and past participle stood on end)

stands on end (present singular third-person)
standing on end (participle present)
stood on end (participle past)
stood on end (past)

The horrifying tales he told made my hair stand on end.

(of hair) To stand erect, bristle, especially from fear.

esborronar

to stand erect, bristle, especially from fear


tomentum

(botany) A mass of filamentous hairs on the leaf of a plant.

tomento

matted woolly down on the surface of a plant

(zoology) A covering of fine, soft hairs; a pubescence.

(anatomy) A network of fine blood vessels between the pia mater and the cerebral cortex.


beauty parlor

(US, Philippines) A salon where hairdressers, beauticians, and cosmeticians work.


peladophobia

Mention may also be made here to peladophobia, fear of baldness, particularly manifested in men. In the more severe cases of peladophobia, the social intercourse of the patient is much restricted, developing into what is virtually a phobia of society.

1925, Transactions of the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology of the American Medical Association at the Annual Session, page 190:

Andrew fears bald people (peladophobia). As a child, he inadvertently insulted a bald man in a grocery store and was promptly clapped on the ears by the old man and screamed at.

2008, James Garner, Arthur H. Bell, Phobias and How to Overcome Them: Understanding and Beating Your Fears, Castle Books, →ISBN, page 105:

You can have pluviophobia, the fear of being rained on, or peladophobia, the fear of bald people, but there is no medical term for the fear of doors.

2010, Vanessa Woods, Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, Gotham Books, →ISBN:


slicked-back

en-adj

slicked-back (comparative more slicked-back, superlative most slicked-back)

more slicked-back (comparative)
most slicked-back (superlative)

→ Swedish: backslick

His slicked-back hair made the villain look cool.

(of a hairstyle) Treated with a wet-look gel and combed straight back


cut-throat razor

en-noun

cut-throat razor (plural cut-throat razors)


straight razor

A razor with a blade that can fold into its handle.


have one's ears lowered

en-verb

have one's ears lowered (third-person singular simple present has one's ears lowered, present participle having one's ears lowered, simple past and past participle had one's ears lowered)

has one's ears lowered (present singular third-person)
having one's ears lowered (participle present)
had one's ears lowered (participle past)
had one's ears lowered (past)

Hair cuts change the relative position of the end of a person's hair and the person's ears and the term is based on the humorous supposition that the same effect could have been achieved by moving the ears lower down the person's face.

When you need a haircut, you go to a barber, so here I am at Tommy's Bronxville's tonsorial prepared to get clipped. Or, as we said as kids, have my ears lowered.

2006 June 25, “Cutting to the Chase at Barber Shop”, in New York Daily News:

(idiomatic, humorous, dated) To get a haircut.


permed

en-adj

permed (comparative more permed, superlative most permed)

more permed (comparative)
most permed (superlative)


sidebang

(colloquial, US) A hairstyle that consists of long hair brushed forward over one eye, similar to a fringe haircut, but worn on one side only.


roached

From the noun roach (“curve, edge of a sail”).

(US) Having a style of trimming a horse's mane so that the hair stands straight up from the neck, similar to the natural growth pattern of a zebra's mane, or a mohawk haircut on a human.


permanent wave

(British) A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm


curling tongs

Tongs, usually electrically heated, used for curling or waving the hair.

kulma

heated tongs for curling or waving the hair


mozy

The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barber's hands.

1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the ... - Page 223


yellow-haired

I was down at the New Amsterdam / Staring at this yellow-haired girl

1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:


put hair on someone's chest

en-verb

put hair on someone's chest (third-person singular simple present puts hair on someone's chest, present participle putting hair on someone's chest, simple past and past participle put hair on someone's chest)

puts hair on someone's chest (present singular third-person)
putting hair on someone's chest (participle present)
put hair on someone's chest (participle past)
put hair on someone's chest (past)

When Lonnie Bushey was 6 he started drinking with his father who told him it would put hair on his chest and make him a man.

1998 February 17, Tom Becker, “School Speaker Talks About Life as Addict”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 2010-10-10, page B2:

(idiomatic) To make a person (especially a male) stronger or more masculine or mature.


hystricism

A disease of the hair where the hairs stand erect.


balden

balden (third-person singular simple present baldens, present participle baldening, simple past and past participle baldened)

baldens (present singular third-person)
baldening (participle present)
baldened (participle past)
baldened (past)

Now Champou's partner was the Court barber, and by the use of a peculiar hair oil which the two of them had concocted, they soon managed to balden the pates of all the male aristocracy of the place.

At 65 years old, the top of his head had baldened, but gray patches surrounded his ears.

2010, Jordan Belcher, Tre Pound, page 123:


hair tie

A circular piece of elastic used to hold hair in place.


manscape

manscape (third-person singular simple present manscapes, present participle manscaping, simple past and past participle manscaped)

manscapes (present singular third-person)
manscaping (participle present)
manscaped (participle past)
manscaped (past)

Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?

2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass:

College News presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping, taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: […] / – Facial shaving/beard trimming / – […] – Controlling pubic hair / […] Embrace leg hair / Donts: – Excessive chest hair / – Long nose hairs / – Ear hair / – Adventurous shoulder and back hair / – Unibrows / – Wild beards […] / Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly manscaped.

2009 September 30, Sara DiRienzo, “The Art of Manscaping”, in College News:

Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man […], is a must in this day and age.

2009 October 6, Molly Kissler, “How To: Manscape”, in State Press Magazine:

“I'm Jamie,” he said, reaching out to shake Ophelia's hand. “Nice to meet you. And I don't manscape. But Gabriel does.”

2012, Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors, →ISBN:

Many tools can be used to “manscape” including a razor and shaving cream, cordless body trimmers, and even scissors.

2014, Mike Baldasarre, A Boy's Basic Guide to Puberty, →ISBN, page 15:

He manscapes, gets manicures, and I'm pretty sure he mansplains with the best of them, but when we're in the same room, the hairs on my arms rise.

2017, Sarina Bowen, Tanya Eby, Man Hands: Volume 1, →ISBN:

(neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.


grey-haired

Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.

2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:


shoad

shoad (third-person singular simple present shoads, present participle shoading, simple past and past participle shoaded)

shoads (present singular third-person)
shoading (participle present)
shoaded (participle past)
shoaded (past)

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.

cog

Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate.

1941, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, page 307:

The discovery of davidite at Radium Hill was made in 1906, by Mr. A. J. Smith, who mistook the black shoaded mineral for tin ore.

1958, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Australian Atomic Energy Symposium, 1958, page 44:

Several outcrops were originally pegged in the hope that the shoaded black mineral would prove to be tin ore.

2013, Arthur John Gaskin, H. R. Samson, Ceramic and Refractory Clays of South Australia, page 7:

They are to be seen projecting in relief from the outcrops and shoaded on the surface.

1911, Sir Douglas Mawson, Walter Howchin, Chiastolites from Bimbowrie, South Australia, page 196:


bowl cut

(hairstyling) A haircut where the hair is cut short on the sides and back and allowed to grow long on the top, as though only the hair not covered by an inverted bowl had been removed.


hairspray

en-noun

hairspray (countable and uncountable, plural hairsprays)


hairspray

en-verb

hairspray (third-person singular simple present hairsprays, present participle hairspraying, simple past and past participle hairsprayed)

hairsprays (present singular third-person)
hairspraying (participle present)
hairsprayed (participle past)
hairsprayed (past)


pogonophile

(uncommon) One who loves or studies beards.


goateed

Still, he believed deeply in the sixty-three-year-old goateed vegetarian and knew that with the program of careful diet, bodybuilding, swimming, and running up eight-story sand dunes, he would not be where he was now.

2008, David Maraniss, chapter 15, in Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, →ISBN, page 296:


naturalista

From natural + -ista. Compare natural (“hairstyle for people with Afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated”).

(US) A person with Afro-textured hair who embraces their natural hairstyle; a follower of the natural hair movement.


updo

Ruthie Alpern, as she was then known, was a poised and chatty blonde with an updo and a winning smile.

2009 January 15, David Segal, Alison Leigh Cowan, “Madoffs Shared Much, but How Much?”, in New York Times:

A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck


whiskery

en-adj

whiskery (comparative more whiskery, superlative most whiskery)

more whiskery (comparative)
most whiskery (superlative)

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It is, of course, the most whiskery old cliché, but clichés usually have their basis in fact, and this one certainly does: Historically, the French have paid extraordinary—some would say excessive—attention to what they eat and how they eat it.

2001, Peter Mayle, “The Inner Frenchman”, in French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew, New York: Knopf, page 8:

I checked it out, and there were some good—if whiskery—stories.

2009 January 14, Simon Hoggart, “Simon Hoggart’s Sketch: Short-selling sermons as God takes on Mammon”, in The Guardian:


rattail

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From rat + tail: all of the nonliteral senses come from something else's fancied resemblance to the tail of a rat.

In the North Atlantic, Russians pioneered the harvesting of rattails, a ubiquitous deep fish with big eyes and a long tail that swishes back and forth in a sinuous motion.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

en:ray-finned fish of family Macrouridae

Any of the large dark-colored deep-sea fish of the Macrouridae family of ray-finned fish.


gingerism

/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɚɪzm̩/

Gingerism is popular with comedians and audiences, and just as addicts take methadone instead of heroin, ginger gags are a safe, controlled substitute for ....

1997, Oliver Double, Stand Up!: On Being a Comedian, page 219:

A young girl asked the website: "What is the difference between racism, gingerism and sexism? "Nothing, that's what.

2004 July 22, “Red alert over an annoying prejudice.”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:

Gingerism in the workplace could form the basis of formal grievances or constructive dismissal cases, an employment lawyer has warned.

2007 June 14, “Red hair bullying cases could end up in court”, in The Register:

(British, Australia, New Zealand) Prejudice or discrimination against people with red hair.


unstyled

[…] the unstyled backyard images by Lise Sarfati, who began her career as a photojournalist.

2009 January 23, Roberta Smith, “Fashion Forward (Not for the Fainthearted)”, in New York Times:


longbeard

(poetic) Synonym of greybeard (“an old man”)

For those who have never navigated “Fairways,” as some longbeards call the original store — there are satellites in Harlem and Brooklyn and on Long Island, with another planned for New Jersey — it is a low-ceilinged warren under pitiless fluorescents.

2009 January 31, Glenn Collins, “A Slow New York Passage, Up to Organic Food”, in New York Times:

Synonym of greybeard (“experienced long-time member of a group”)


foretop

From Middle English fore-top, for-top, equivalent to fore- + top.

(obsolete) The lock of hair which grows on top of the forehead; the corresponding part of a wig.


hairstyling

en-noun

hairstyling (countable and uncountable, plural hairstylings)

At Fekkai, for example, the solid oak communal hairstyling stations are designed to encourage clients to talk to one another […].

2007 April 5, Natasha Singer, “These Salons Forgo Beauty Sleep”, in New York Times:


sidelock

(firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.


brushable

en-adj

brushable (comparative more brushable, superlative most brushable)

more brushable (comparative)
most brushable (superlative)

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kesh

(Sikhism) The practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally, one of the five Ks.


detangle

en-verb

detangle (third-person singular simple present detangles, present participle detangling, simple past and past participle detangled)

detangles (present singular third-person)
detangling (participle present)
detangled (participle past)
detangled (past)

We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190:

(transitive) To disentangle, remove tangles from (especially hair).


snow on the rooftop

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(idiomatic, euphemistic, often humorous) Gray or white hair on one's head, especially as an indication of aging.

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace


haircutter

One who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser.

Friseur

one who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser

Any of various mechanical or electrical devices used to cut hair.


moptop

While young women loved the Beatles' hair, British adults found it “unsightly, unsafe, unruly, and unclean.” Factories suspended young apprentices who dared to show up in a moptop.

2022, W. David Marx, “Introduction”, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

(dated) A style of haircut popularized by the Beatles.


maneless

The scientists had partly suspected that the maneless males were adolescents mistaken for adults by amateur observers.

2002 April, Philip Caputo, “Maneless Lions”, in National Geographic:


epilate

epilate (third-person singular simple present epilates, present participle epilating, simple past and past participle epilated)

epilates (present singular third-person)
epilating (participle present)
epilated (participle past)
epilated (past)

Cæsar was proud of his physical beauty, and, like some modern inverts, he was accustomed carefully to shave and epilate his body to preserve the smoothness of the skin.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):

To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.


marumage

A round knotted hairstyle traditionally worn by married women in Japan.


blowdryer

(US, Philippines) Alternative spelling of blow-dryer


barber pole

A type of sign indicating a barber's shop, most traditionally a pole with a helix of red and white stripes, in the US including blue, sometimes moving.


nonshedding

So-called designer dogs became popular a decade ago, beginning with the Labradoodle and other poodle crosses that sought to affix the poodle’s relatively nonshedding coat to other breeds.

2007 February 4, Jon Mooallem, “The Modern Kennel Conundrum”, in New York Times:

However, unless you have a nonshedding, nonlicking breed, there's no such thing as a truly hypoallergenic dog. How about a nice goldfish instead?

2017, Howard Bennett, The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick:


jelly roll

(US) A cylindrical cake containing jelly (jam).

(by extension, US slang) The female genitalia, sexual intercourse, or a lover.

a male hairstyle, common in the 1950s USA, a roll of greased hair longitudinally aligned front to back at the middle of the head

(finance) An options position consisting of two calls and two puts, which can be seen as a combination of synthetic long and short positions with different expiries, or a combination of a put time spread and a call time spread.


beardy

en-adj

beardy (comparative beardier or more beardy, superlative beardiest or most beardy)

beardier (comparative)
more beardy (comparative)
beardiest (superlative)
most beardy (superlative)

From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).

The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes.

1852, William Kidd, Kidd's Own Journal: For Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General, volume 2, page 31:

His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face.

1855, By John Ballou, The Lady of the West: Or, The Gold Seekers, page 391:

1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island, Boys' Life, page 44,
But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.

"Very hairy, beardy, toothy kinds of heads," said Ardan. "I remember them, and they used to get hairier and beardier and toothier every second day.

1970, James Stephens, Deirdre, page 152:

The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.

2008, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland, page 42:


stache

Only one show has succeeded in keeping a kid in the lead for a decade: "The Simpsons" with the animated Bart Simpson. Watching Bart never mature is considered a key to its enduring appeal. "Early on, I know that the powers that be decided that no one would age," said Tim Long, the show's current head writer. "A kid with a starter ‘stache, that would just be unpleasant," he added.

2003 July 28, “Don't Wanna Grow Up Cuz Puberty Isn't Funny”, in The New York Times:

[The candidate] may face an entirely different challenge in his quest for the mayoralty: his mustache. [...] The perils of the ‘stache may be hard to define, but analysts say that looks matter in politics, where facial hair is frequently considered verboten.

2005 May 23, “Democrats Still Searching for a Stronger Challenger”, in The New York Times:


safety razor

A razor, designed for safety, that protects the skin from all but the very edge of the blade (as opposed to a straight razor).


to a hair

/tuː‿ə ˈhɛə/

A reference to the very small diameter of a strand of hair: compare hair's breadth.

Pand[arus]. Youle remember your brothers excuſe? / Par[is]. To a hayre.

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘A Procession! A Procession!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 298:

(idiomatic) To a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.


overpermed

overpermed (comparative more overpermed, superlative most overpermed)

more overpermed (comparative)
most overpermed (superlative)

She looked pretty much as I'd imagined she would: loose cotton smock, overpermed hair, tobacco-stained teeth.

2004, Linda Lael Miller, Never Look Back:


Jewfro

He raked his fingers through his hair, which had become a Jewfro in the Florida humidity.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 160:

A curly, bushy hairstyle worn by some Ashkenazi Jews.


Jheri curl

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/ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/

Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor.

named-after

Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!

1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Mister Senor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson):

Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 517:

His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood.

2020, Romeo Conway, Stop Faking for Stripes, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.


lovelock

A lock of hair that hangs down and is worn apart from the hair that remains.


beauty parlour

(UK) Alternative spelling of beauty parlor


postiche

This type of postiche is called a 'combination wig' because it mixes hand-made work with machine-made work.

1993, Patsy Baker, Wigs & Makeup for Theatre, Television, and Film, page 150:

[…]both kings and queens enjoyed wearing lavish fake beards made of gold and silver called postiches, which were strapped behind the ears like a Halloween mask.

2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A cultural history of facial hair, page 17:

Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.

postiche

any item of false hair worn on the head or face


queueless

Without a queue (line of people or things waiting).


pattern baldness

A gradual loss of hair, common in humans, especially males.


unhair

en-verb

unhair (third-person singular simple present unhairs, present participle unhairing, simple past and past participle unhaired)

unhairs (present singular third-person)
unhairing (participle present)
unhaired (participle past)
unhaired (past)

The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.

1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:

They found that such a practice produced what was termed a "mellow" lime; the mellower the lime the more rapidly it unhaired the skin.

1924, Tanners' Council of America. Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Reports and Papers, volume 2, page 520:

(transitive) To remove hair from (something), especially from hide.


yure

Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.

1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:

Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.


earlock

A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies.


capillaceous

en-adj

capillaceous (comparative more capillaceous, superlative most capillaceous)

more capillaceous (comparative)
most capillaceous (superlative)


toupée

(hyperforeign) Alternative spelling of toupee.


walking carpet

/ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/

/ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/

From a scene in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977), in which Princess Leia insults Chewbacca, a member of a race of hairy bipeds called Wookiees, by referring to him as a “walking carpet”.

“Really.” Mac arched a thick eyebrow. “You didn't say anything about my body hair when we were going out together.” / Peter kept his eyes on the espresso and away from Mac's hairy wrist. “You're not like...that guy. You're not a walking carpet. And my God, you've got muscle definition.”

2003, Jonathan Cohen, chapter 2, in Bear Like Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished Maple Shade, N.J.: Bare Bones Books, Lethe Press, 2011, →ISBN, page 18:

But then my true hair problems began. […] It was all the other hairs rearing their ugly heads—between my eyebrows, above my upper lip, around my jawline, down my neck, around my new breasts, down my front to my navel, over my arms and knuckles, right down my legs to my toes. I didn't recall ever seeing a woman shaving her face and "taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.

2003, Bhargavi C. Mandava, “To Apu, with Love”, in Ophira Edut, editor, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, 2nd expanded and updated edition, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2018-12-13, page 72:

I had *some* chest hairs, but it wasn't nearly as much as some guys I've seen (there were a couple of guys I saw in the locker room at school, both seniors, who were practically walking carpets).

2011 August 7, Rightardia [username], “Transgender Stories – Troy! – Chapter 1”, in alt.politics (Usenet), message-ID <j1ksqd$fjv$1@speranza.aioe.org>:

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An exceptionally hairy person.

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Chewbacca
Princess Leia


ringleted

ringleted (comparative more ringleted, superlative most ringleted)

more ringleted (comparative)
most ringleted (superlative)

As for the mob cap, not a fig did I care for it; but, to be taken for anything but a cavalier, by the ringleted one, was absolutely unendurable.

1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


fuzzy-wuzzy

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Adjective: Reduplication of fuzzy. Noun: From the adjective, in reference to their fuzzy hair texture.

(Australia, World War II) A Papuan, especially one who assisted the Australian military against the Japanese; a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel.


axillary hair

en-noun

axillary hair (usually uncountable, plural axillary hairs)

axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair

(uncountable) Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.


tonsor

From Latin tōnsor (“barber, hairdresser”), from the supine root of tondēre (“to shave, to shear”) + -or (“-or: forming agent nouns”).

“So, tonsor,” says Jones, “I find you have more trades than one; how came you not to inform me of this last night?”

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

He was speedily shown the way to such an emporium of intelligence, and soon found he was likely to hear all he desired to know, and much more, while his head was subjected to the art of a nimble tonsor.

1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 27, in The Fortunes of Nigel:


hairpulling

Shirley, a 42-year-old married homemaker, presented for evaluation of compulsive hairpulling.

2006, Nancy C. Andreasen, Donald W. Black, Introductory textbook of psychiatry:

The pulling of one's own or another's hair.


hairslide

A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.


ranga

Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.

2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page:

2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.

3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, Fez′s resolutions: […]

Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.

2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183:

SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!

2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles

(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.


sidecut

A type of haircut where the hair is partially shaved on one side.


hairgrip

Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.

1981, Gillian Allnutt, Spitting the Pips Out, page 51:

Then she leant over towards the bedside table, selected a hairgrip from amongst the crusted trio littered beside her hairbrush, and tenderly inserted the looped end into her right ear, turning it delicately to dredge for wax.

1985, Patricia Ferguson, Family myths and legends, page 8:

“The hairgrip was in this envelope", Ulrika Stenholm said, passing him another small plastic bag containing a white envelope.

2016, Leif G. W. Persson, The Dying Detective, page 111:

A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.


moppy

en-adj

moppy (comparative moppier, superlative moppiest)

moppier (comparative)
moppiest (superlative)

“When I’m downloading an Internet, to do an e-mail, for sending, how do I make it go to your stepmother?” the dad asks his son, a Mac-user with moppy, Robby Benson hair.

2009 August 2, Virginia Heffernan, “Hop on, Pop”, in New York Times:


bluehair

Compound of blue + hair.
The "elderly person" sense, first documented in the 1980s, refers to the blue rinse once used by older women to conceal grey hair.
The second sense emerged from the stereotypical association of dyed blue hair with social-justice activists.

I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.

1997, Karin Vonesh, "Who are the worst drivers of all?", Southwords (Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL), Volume 34, Issue 7, 19 December 1997, page 3

He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.

2011, Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast, page 33:

“Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”

2019, Chris O'Neill, quoted in Jordan Bradley, "Do Something Different: Try These Alternative Recreation Options", Encore (Michigan), June 2019, page 25

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.


becurl

en-verb

becurl (third-person singular simple present becurls, present participle becurling, simple past and past participle becurled)

becurls (present singular third-person)
becurling (participle present)
becurled (participle past)
becurled (past)

[…] all bedressed, becurled and befeathered […]

1909, Bengal, Past & Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society, page 472:

(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.


Fu Manchu moustache

en-noun

Fu Manchu moustache (plural Fu Manchu moustaches)

Associated with Fu Manchu, the villain in a series of novels written by Sax Rohmer in the first half of the 20th century.


red-haired

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter VIII, in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV:

Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, / then go to Meneláos, the red-haired king / at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians.

1961, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey, Book One, Prentice Hall, published 2001, lines 320–22:


piliform

en-adj

piliform (comparative more piliform, superlative most piliform)

more piliform (comparative)
most piliform (superlative)


canities

From Latin cānitiēs (“gray hair, old age”).

Voigtel mentions the occurrence of canities almost suddenly.

1896, George M. Gould, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine:

(uncommon, medicine) The condition of having gray hair.


Hitler mustache

en-noun

Hitler mustache (plural Hitler mustaches)

Named after German dictator Adolf Hitler.

named-after

toothbrush mustache
toothbrush mustache#English


mohawked

(of a person) Having a Mohawk hairstyle.


toothbrush mustache

en-noun

toothbrush mustache (plural toothbrush mustaches)

Coordinate term: pencil moustache

(informal) A moustache covering only the philtrum.


Charlie Chaplin mustache

Charlie Chaplin mustache (plural Charlie Chaplin mustaches)

Named after English comic actor, filmaker and composer Charlie Chaplin.


pilate

en-adj

pilate (comparative more pilate, superlative most pilate)

more pilate (comparative)
most pilate (superlative)

pilate pollen


Rapunzel syndrome

After the fairy-tale character with long hair which she let down as a ladder.

(medicine) The rare condition of having eaten large quantities of hair, which subsequently become lodged within a long portion of the intestine.


trichomania

From Ancient Greek
θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) (stem trikh-) and μανία (manía, “madness”). By surface analysis, tricho- + -mania.

A mania for, or passionate interest in, long hair.

trichotillomania

hair-removing compulsion; not to be confused

trichophilia

paraphilic attraction to hair or hairiness; hair-fetishism


tricho-

From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”), (stem τριχ- (trikh-) due to Grassmann's law).


playoff beard

In the closing credits of the documentary, Boston players were asked to rate and rank the best playoff beards on the team.

2013 November 27, Dan Carson, “Boston's Koji Uehara Thinks Red Sox Burly Man Beards Are 'Gross'”, in Bleacher Report:

(US, Canada, sports) A beard grown by members of a sports team as a sign of unity or good luck during the postseason.


bangless

Whether they conjure painful visions of husband-stealers or happy memories of Betty and Veronica, bangs are an appealing option in the summer, when the weather forces the bangless to march around with hair greased back with sweat, like so many W.N.B.A. players or Romanian gymnasts.

2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Bangs Return, and With Them, Naysayers and Chopaholics”, in New York Times:


shorthaired

shorthaired (comparative more shorthaired, superlative most shorthaired)

more shorthaired (comparative)
most shorthaired (superlative)

Melissa got her wish to have a lavish living space for Bailey, an 11-year-old German shorthaired pointer.

2007 September 9, The Associated Press, “Baker Keeps Building for the Future”, in New York Times:

(especially of nonhuman animals) Having short hair.


underhaired

underhaired (comparative more underhaired, superlative most underhaired)

more underhaired (comparative)
most underhaired (superlative)

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Or, to put it another way, Ronald Fergus, middle aged, overweight, underhaired and slightly lacking in the marbles department, was in his kitchen chatting.

2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, page 93:

And I advised the underhaired Tony Kornheiser that as the real star of Monday Night, he had to impose his prolix potency on his partners.

2007 December 25, Richard Sandomir, “Telling It Like It Is to the N.F.L. and Cable TV”, in New York Times:


bald as a coot

(simile, informal) Totally bald; without any hair on one's head.


grayhead

What is most troublesome to me is that our residents — no matter how much we grayheads or graybeards model the approach to history-taking from parents — learn that the checklist on the computer screen is the thing to look at, and not the living person describing their child and her problems.

2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:

(Canada, US) A person with gray hair; an elderly person.


ultrablond

ultrablond (comparative more ultrablond, superlative most ultrablond)

more ultrablond (comparative)
most ultrablond (superlative)

Of course, there was the requisite shot from when they both appeared on Oprah, hand-holding shots on red carpets with Celia in a flame of an orange dress and Kick in a smooth tuxedo sporting the ultrablond hair from one of his summer blockbuster movies.

2007, Sharon Naylor, It's Not My Wedding (But I'm in Charge), page 50:

As her partner, Maxim Beloserkovsky has too little freshness and too much calculated charm in his dancing; and he is distractingly ultrablond in a way that strongly recalls too many Soviet male dancers of yesteryear.

2009 May 21, Alastair Macaulay, “Adrift in a Spectacle of Balanchine and Tchaikovsky”, in New York Times:


defrizz

en-verb

defrizz (third-person singular simple present defrizzes, present participle defrizzing, simple past and past participle defrizzed)

defrizzes (present singular third-person)
defrizzing (participle present)
defrizzed (participle past)
defrizzed (past)

He's defrizzed my hair and penciled it in as flowing curls, pared down my weight, added several inches to my height and given my outfit a designer edge.

2003, Jacqueline Wilson, Girls Out Late:

(transitive) To remove the frizz from (hair).


microbraid

English is little heard, and women wrapped in Technicolor fabrics plait microbraids into customers’ hair as their colleagues beckon passers-by.

2009 September 20, Sarah Maslin Nir, “The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On”, in New York Times:


hair pie

I don't mind munching on her hair pie except when I have to stop to pull her hairs off my tongue.

(slang, vulgar) The external female genitalia with an unshaven mons veneris.


vandyke

Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.

He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.

1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC:

Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf.

2009 May 11, Eric Kaplan, Richard Rosenstock, “The Monopolar Expedition”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 23, spoken by Sheldon Cooper:

A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.