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towhead
[ toh-hed ]
noun
- a person with very light blond hair:
He’s the only towhead in the family but otherwise looks almost identical to his brother Mike.
- a head of very light blond hair:
C’mon, Blondie, get your towhead off the pillow and let’s get going!
- a sandbar in a river, especially a sandbar along a stand of cottonwood trees.
towhead
/ ˈtəʊˌhɛd /
noun
- a person with blond or yellowish hair
- a head of such hair
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Other Words From
- tow·head·ed tow-head·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of towhead1
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Example Sentences
Turn the page, and there, in fresh ginghams, would be mom, baking pies with one hand while patting her towhead with the other.
As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.
We laid up for the day on a towhead tolerable close to the left-hand bank.
On this up trip I saw a little towhead (infant island) half a mile long, which had been formed during the past nineteen years.
Only that morning I had seen Towhead, crouched behind a clump of syringas, playing sharp-shooter.
To the right of that was a towhead, a newly formed island of mud and sand partly awash.
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