towhead
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A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow
A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.
- 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.
- 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.
An alluvial deposit in a river, such as a sandbar, or a small island formed from silt,…
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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