单词 | brick-topped |
释义 | brick-toppedadj. U.S. slang. Now rare. That has hair the reddish colour of brick; red-haired. Cf. bricktop n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > red > having redeOE rousec1400 red-haired?a1513 sandy?1530 red-headed1548 amber-crowneda1586 redhead1664 sandy-pated1687 red-polled1787 sandy-haireda1817 brick-topped1858 Titian-haired1880 1858 ‘N. Buntline’ White Wizard xlv, in N.-Y. Mercury 18 Sept. 5/3 You brick-topped old heathen you, if you curse me, I'll give you something to remember till the devil gets you. 1878 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Times 27 Sept. No true gentleman will allude to a young lady with auburn hair as ‘that..brick-topped girl’. 1920 Boys' Life July 20 ‘You mean two birds with one stone-boat,’ corrected the brick-topped oarsman. 1959 Washington Post & Times Herald b14 Robert Herridge is a brick-topped, powerfully built and overwhelmingly earnest young Welshman. 1985 K. Schwartz Male Member xi. 166 Ellis always had to..pat Edith's bricktopped head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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