"elflock" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From elf + lock.",
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      "form": "elflocks",
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          "name": "Hair",
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          "ref": "1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        "A lock of hair that is tangled."
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        "(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled."
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "糾結的頭髮"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiūjié de tóufa",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "纠结的头发"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "takku"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Weichselzopf"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "kołtun"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "kóvtun",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ко́втун"
        }
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  "word": "elflock"
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  "etymology_text": "From elf + lock.",
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        "A lock of hair that is tangled."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled."
      ],
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "糾結的頭髮"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiūjié de tóufa",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "纠结的头发"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "takku"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Weichselzopf"
    },
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "kołtun"
    },
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kóvtun",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ко́втун"
    }
  ],
  "word": "elflock"
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