hair-bowed

adj

Etymology

From hair bow + -ed.

  1. derived from *bʰewgʰ- — “to bend
  2. inherited from *beuganą
  3. inherited from *beugan
  4. inherited from būgan
  5. inherited from bowen
  6. formed as hairbow — “hair + bow
  7. suffixed as hair-bowed — “hairbow + ed

Definitions

  1. Wearing a hair bow.

    • Dressed in short skirts, pig-tailed and hair-bowed, the seniors vied for prizes in costumes, played games and were taken to the movies (half-price) by their junior sisters.
    • He loves them all — the short, crying kindergartners who come in clinging to their mothers on the first day; the freshly scrubbed, hair-bowed little girls; the rough-and-tumble boys.
    • Hello Kitty, that charming little hair-bowed sweetheart that’s made the folks at Sanrio very, very wealthy for the last several decades, is apparently, according to Hello Kitty expert Christine R. Yano, “not a cat.”

The neighborhood

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