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单词 woolly-head
释义 ˈwoolly-head
A person with woolly hair, esp. (disparagingly), a Black, a Negro; hence, a nickname for an abolitionist in America.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2), Wooly-heads, a term applied in the first place to negroes, and then to anti-slavery politicians.1864Daily Tel. 20 Sept., I must do the American press the justice to say that..I get it quite as hot from the Woollyheads as from the Copperheads.188419th Cent. June 993 Our friends the ‘woolly heads’ [sc. Arabs] are peeping at us from amongst the bushes.
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