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English
Etymology
From shock + head.
Noun
shockhead (plural shockheads)
- A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:She carries it so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shockheads of all the village boys, and village dogs: it grows like grass.
1872, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketch-book, volume 2, page 160:Parents are at the cabin doors, dressing the hair of ragged children; shock-heads of girls peer out from the black circumference of smoke, and children inconceivably filthy, yell wildly and vociferously as the coach passes by.
- A person having hair of this kind.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary