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单词 brick-topped
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brick-toppedadj.

Brit. /ˈbrɪktɒpt/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkˌtɑpt/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bricktop n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < bricktop n. + -ed suffix2.
U.S. slang. Now rare.
That has hair the reddish colour of brick; red-haired. Cf. bricktop n.
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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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