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white-headed, a.|ˈhwaɪtˌhɛdɪd|
1. Of an animal: Having the head (wholly or partly) white; having white hair, plumage, etc. on the head.
(Freq. in specific designations of various birds.)
1525in Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 11 On whie whiteheded. 1547Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 53 One whittheaded calff. 1785Pennant Arctic Zool. II. 196. 1872 Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 192 White-headed Woodpecker.
2. a. Of a person: White-haired, esp. from age; also, having very light or fair hair, flaxen-haired.
1815Scott Guy M. i, A great white-headed, bare-legged, lubberly boy of twelve years old. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxv, A small white-headed boy with a sunburnt face. 1886Tennyson Locksley Hall 60 Yrs. After 38 This old white-headed dreamer.
b. In colloq. use, with boy: Favourite, darling: cf. white a. 9 and white boy 1.
1820C. R. Maturin Melmoth i, He was always her ‘white-headed boy’, she said,—(imprimis, his hair was as black as jet). 1894Hall Caine Manxman ii. xi, He was always my white-headed boy, and I stuck to him with life. 1933A. Christie Lord Edgware Dies xxii. 186 You're positively convinced now that Ronald Marsh is a white-headed boy who can do no wrong. 1954T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 60 Perhaps you think it would be bad for your prospects Now that you're Claude's white-headed boy.
3. Of a wave: White-capped, white-crested; also of a sea covered with such waves.
1897Kipling Capt. Cour. viii, An angry, white-headed sea. 1909E. Phillpotts in R.P.A. Ann. (1910) 10 The riotous march of mad, white-headed waves. |