tow head


a person with very light (almost white) blond hair, “tow” being flax or hemp fibers. tow-headed, along with fair(-haired) and flaxen-haired, is a tradional way in the english language to refer to blond hair or lightly-colored hair, having come from its old germanic roots (which are quite rare).
“the tow head is an illusive creature, a minority.”
tow headed is literally “flaxen haired”. this meaning of tow comes from middle low german touw (which means “flax, hemp fiber”). this probably went back to the prehistoric germanic base -tow-, -taw “make, prepare” (source also of english tool), in the sense “make yarn from wool; spin”.
he’s a real tow head
blond; light haired – the color of tow, whatever that is
“she’s awful bright for a towhead”
the inevitable blonde douche bag that is often found on overseas academic trips. has a tendency to bite his lower lip and a habit of infecting the social mannerisms of others with his own douche-baggery (douche-baggery being a term he believes he invented himself). smokes like a chimney and habitually quotes adult cartoons in an attempt to be funny.
person 1: “did you see that guy over there? he knows the word for ashtray in seven different languages!”

person 2: “wow, what a towhead.”

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