towhead

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Etymology

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From tow +‎ -head.

Noun

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towhead (plural towheads)

  1. A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
    • 1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:
      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.
    • 1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:
      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.
    • 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.
  2. An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt, often permanent enough to have vegetation.

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