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Struwwelpeter
(ˈstruːəlpiːtə(r), ‖ ˈʃtrʊvəlˌpeːtər)
Also erron. Struwelpeter.
The name of a character in a children's book of the same name by Heinrich Hoffmann (1809–94), used attrib. to designate (a person with) long, thick, and unkempt hair. Also transf. Also Comb., as Struwwelpeter-haired. Hence Struwwelpeterdom, (of hair) the condition of being thick and untidy. Cf. shockheaded Peter s.v. shock-headed a.
1909W. J. Locke Septimus iii. 37 He passed his hand through his Struwelpeter hair. Ibid. xxii. 351 His hair..reached the climax of Struwelpeterdom. 1920E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 78 As he rides on his rocking-horse All Struwwelpeter-haired. 1927‘G. Daviot’ Man in Queue vii. 82 The artist's eyebrows disappeared in the Struwwelpeter hair. 1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest x. 228 The Commissar was a small, squat man with very bright eyes and a Struwwelpeter shock of black hair. 1959C. Spry Favourite Flowers xxv. 188 The flowers [of Anemone alpina] were over and I saw for the first time what Mr. Drake calls the ‘Struwwelpeter’ seed heads. 1973R. W. Clark Einstein xi. 269 William Rothenstein, making notes for his remarkable portrait of Einstein who is presented as a Struwelpeter character, smiling from an aureole of almost electrified hair. |