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combover

noun

Etymology

From comb + over.

  1. inherited from *upér✻ — “above; over”
  2. inherited from *uber✻ — “over”
  3. inherited from *obar✻
  4. inherited from ofer
  5. inherited from over
  6. compounded as combover — “comb + over”

Definitions

  1. A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial…

    A manner of combing hair from one side to the other in an attempt to conceal a medial bald patch.

    • With his funny comb-over and shy manner he was a strange man but she knew that he was a good man, and it is goodness that counts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for combover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA