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red-headed

or red·head·ed

[ red-hed-id red-hed-id ]

adjective

  1. having red hair, as a person.
  2. having a red head, as an animal, especially a bird.


red-headed

adjective

  1. (of a person) having red hair
  2. (of an animal) having a red head
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of red-headed1

First recorded in 1555–65
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Example Sentences

Ygritte, the red-headed wildling archer who once loved (and lost) Jon Snow, has breached the walls of Castle Black.

For it appears his red-headed anathema really could be coming back into the royal fold.

Abel is a red-headed giant, so Eli wears a lot of his hand-me-downs.

For many years, it and "The Red-Headed League" were the two adventures most often reprinted in school textbooks.

You get an ordinary, grinning, red-headed boy, and you have to educate him.

For almost an hour then he lay considering solemnly whether a red-headed girl could possibly be pretty.

"Red-headed party found at Woodstock," the valiant sleuth had wired with unusual delicacy and caution.

By his side was Bob Berkley, and behind him was a red-headed Falin whom she well remembered.

Three miles up that fork they came upon a red-headed man leading his horse from a mountaineer's yard.

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