shock-head
[f. shock a.]
A head covered with a thick crop of hair.
| 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxxii, A shock-head of red hair. |
b. attrib. or adj. (in quot. transf.).
| 1842 Tennyson Amphion v, The shock-head willows. |
So shock-headed a.; shock-headed Peter = Struwwelpeter.
| 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxii, He was a wild shock-headed looking animal. 1848 tr. H. Hoffmann's English Struwwelpeter (ed. 4) 2 Any thing to me is sweeter Than to see Shock-headed Peter. 1860 Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. xi, Two small shock-headed chidren were lying prone and resting on their elbows. 1895 R. Stephens Cruciform Mark ix. 47 ‘Shock-headed Peter’, as he was familiarly dubbed..was a very interesting personality... Red-haired and red-bearded, his head was a perfect burning bush. 1899 R. Bridges Idle Flowers Poems (1912) 353 Shock-headed Dandelion, That drank the fire of the sun. 1905 C. Mackenzie Diary 23 May in My Life & Times (1964) III. 224 Went to see Martin Harvey as Hamlet... He looked like..shock-headed Peter. 1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vii. 159 Shaking her head so angrily that she looked like shock-headed Peter. |