rug-headed

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.