"towhead" meaning in English

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "towheaded"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tow",
        "3": "head"
      },
      "expansion": "tow + -head",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From tow + -head.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "towheads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "towhead (plural towheads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "56 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -head",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "83 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "en:Hair",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,\n“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow,\" the towhead said."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,\nThe courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person."
      ],
      "id": "en-towhead-en-noun-cR7yPkO4",
      "links": [
        [
          "blond",
          "blond"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "tow",
          "tow"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "blond person",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "lintott"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation."
      ],
      "id": "en-towhead-en-noun-7xcSDDMO",
      "links": [
        [
          "alluvial",
          "alluvial"
        ],
        [
          "sandbar",
          "sandbar"
        ],
        [
          "silt",
          "silt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "towhead"
  ],
  "word": "towhead"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -head",
    "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "towheaded"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tow",
        "3": "head"
      },
      "expansion": "tow + -head",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From tow + -head.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "towheads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "towhead (plural towheads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,\n“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow,\" the towhead said."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,\nThe courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "blond",
          "blond"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "tow",
          "tow"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn't anything but little saplings to tie to.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alluvial",
          "alluvial"
        ],
        [
          "sandbar",
          "sandbar"
        ],
        [
          "silt",
          "silt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "blond person",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lintott"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "towhead"
  ],
  "word": "towhead"
}