Noun
A head of long, unkempt, rough hair.
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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.
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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.