Tow Headed

Word TOW HEADED
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What do we mean by tow headed?

Having pale blond hair, resembling tow.

A person with very light (almost white) blond hair, "tow" being flax or hemp fibers. Tow-headed, along with fair(-haired) and flaxen-haired, is a tradional way in the English language to refer to blond hair or lightly-colored hair, having come from its old Germanic roots (which are quite rare). Urban Dictionary

Tow headed is literally "flaxen haired". This meaning of tow comes from Middle Low German touw (which means "flax, hemp fiber"). This probably went back to the prehistoric Germanic base *tow-, *taw "make, prepare" (source also of English tool), in the sense "make yarn from wool; spin". Urban Dictionary

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The word "tow-headed" in example sentences

Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid. ❋ Clay Farris Naff (2011)

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And while the Dutch superintendent, in execrable Spanish, shouted affirmations of Dutch neutrality into the menacing dark, across the gunwale of Chill II they found the body of the tow-headed youth whose business it had been not to die. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lights from the gangway showed but one occupant, a tow-headed, greasy-faced, blond youth of twenty, very lean, very calm, very much satisfied with himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tow-headed leopard man, who was billed on the boards as Raoul Castlemon and was called Ralph by his intimates, was already in the cage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He liked the cypresses that stretched to the window of his cell, and all along the gravel path that wended over the flat lawn down to where the reeds grew tow-headed at the banks of the streams and the water seemed still and clear on summer days and as rich and foamy as ale in the fall. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One was about twenty, the other a grinning, tow-headed two, dissimilar enough in appearance for me to think, yep, different moms. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Another truck door slammed just then, and his brother-in-law, Jed Cooper, walked toward the gathering on the porch, a tow-headed toddler in his arms. ❋ Cindy Gerard (2010)

 In one, two tow-headed boys were playing on the beach, chasing each other and a Frisbee, as well as chasing a woman who had to be their mother, until all family members fell laughing into the sand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The emergence of the tow-headed pre-teen who appears to MIB may mark a return to the significance of the young ones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their food paid for, the Trainor family heads for home on the heels of Peck and her brood of tow-headed youngsters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems that rascally, tow-headed imp, Michael Audrey Myers, had captured more than a few hearts within the global film-going public – and not just the ones ripped savagely from the chests of hapless teenaged babysitters in suburban Illinois. ❋ Unknown (2010)

  In her mind, La Donna saw a roundup of little boys (tow-headed four year olds) with stick horses and big tin stars pinned on crisp plaid shirts, sitting around a TV watching Hop-A-Long Helen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their tow-headed offspring falls out of a window one snowy night while He and She make slow-mo love in the shower. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"The tow head is an [illusive] [creature], a [minority]." ❋ Lorelili (2006)

he's a [real] tow head ❋ Nic (2004)

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