rug-headed

English

Adjective

rug-headed (comparative more rug-headed, superlative most rug-headed)

  1. (obsolete) Having shaggy hair, shock-headed.
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,
      […] Now for our Irish wars:
      We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
      Which live like venom where no venom else
      But only they have privilege to live.
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