Crossword clues for redhead
redhead
- Lucille Ball, e.g
- Lucille Ball, notably
- Ginger-haired person
- Ball, for one
- Carrot top
- Lucy, for one
- Elizabeth I or Prince Harry
- Conan O'Brien, e.g
- Auburn-haired person
- Vincent van Gogh or Queen Elizabeth I, notably
- Prince Harry or Lucille Ball
- Person called a "carrot-top"
- One with freckles, often
- One with auburn hair
- Molly Ringwald, for one
- Like Carrot Top
- Julianne Moore or Jessica Chastain
- Hot-tempered type, allegedly
- Ginger nut?
- Conan O'Brien or Prince Harry
- Ball, notably
- Archie of comics, e.g
- "23" Blonde ___
- Lucille Ball, e.g.
- 17-Down, e.g.
- One who's usually fair
- Carrot-top
- Fiery-tempered sort, they say
- Conan O'Brien, e.g.
- Wonka inventor
- Conan O'Brien or Chuck Norris, e.g.
- Black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck
- Someone who has red hair
- North American diving duck with a gray-and-black body and reddish-brown head
- Lou Piniella
- Prince Harry, for one
- Communist leader? Queen Elizabeth was one!
- Communist leader, Elizabeth I perhaps?
- Socialist leader such as Kinnock perhaps?
- Left-wing teacher, one with ginger hair
- Top copper?
- Unexpectedly heard about editor’s girl with distinctive hair?
- Annie, for one
- Lucille Ball, for one
- Lucille Ball was one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n.
A person having red hair.
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(Zo["o]l.)
An American duck ( Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.
The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.
(Bot.) A kind of milkweed ( Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from red (adj.1) + head (n.). Red (adj.), of persons, "having red hair" is from late Old English.The Carrot pate be sure you hate, for she'l be true to no man,\n
But put her too 't and she will do 't, and oft turns very common:\n
She that is red upon the head will doubtless ne'r forsake it,\n
But wanton be, assuredly, and willingly will take it.\n
["The True Lover's Admonition," Roxburghe Ballads, c.1680]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person with red hair. 2 A North American duck (''Aythya americana'') highly esteemed as a game bird. 3 A kind of milkweed ((taxlink Asclepias curassavica species noshow=1)), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine. 4 (vern Chinese red-headed centipede pedia=1) 5 (vern red-headed bunting pedia=1) ((taxlink Emberiza bruniceps species noshow=1)) 6 (vern red-headed titi pedia=1) ((taxlink Callicebus regulus species noshow=1)) 7 (vern red-headed vulture pedia=1) (''Sarcogyps calvus'') 8 (vern red-headed woodpecker pedia=1) ((taxlink Melanerpes erythrocephalus species noshow=1))
WordNet
n. someone who has red hair [syn: redheader, red-header, carrottop]
North American diving duck with a gray-and-black body and reddish-brown head [syn: Aythya americana]
black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck [syn: redheaded woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus]
Wikipedia
The redhead (Aythya americana) is a medium-sized diving duck. The scientific name is derived from Greek aithuia an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin americana, of America. The redhead is long with an wingspan. It belongs to the genus Aythya, together with 11 other described species. The redhead and the common pochard form a sister group which together is sister to the canvasback.
The redhead goes by many names, including the red-headed duck and the red-headed pochard. This waterfowl is easily distinguished from other ducks by the male’s copper coloured head and bright blue bill during the breeding season.
A redhead is a person with red hair.
Redhead or Red Head may also refer to:
Redhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto. Set in London in the 1880s, around the time of Jack the Ripper, the musical is a murder mystery in the setting of a wax museum.
Redhead is the major label debut album by Bleu. Released by the Columbia Records imprint Aware Records in 2003, the two versions featured various songs, including the single "Get Up," the song "Somebody Else" from Spider-Man, and "I Won't Go Hollywood" from American Dreamz and Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!. The song "Sayonara" from the original release features backing vocals from Puffy AmiYumi.
Redhead is a 1962 German-Italian drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "redhead".
Below him, we once again spot the pale accounting guy, followed by the redhead.
Then a gorgeous redhead in a micromesh bikini bent over to examine something from the ground and the three males swallowed hard.
There were the Misses Twitchwell, one blonde, one redhead, who refused to take offence at his never being able to tell them apart.
A redheaded musher with a big beard came into the center looking distraught.
A short, full-bosomed, green-eyed redhead, her lawyer friend was as outspoken as she was loyal.
The chief engineer was of course superior in title, position, pay and authority, but an on-looker would have taken him to be the inferior, simply because he was so overtowered by the phenomenal height and breadth of the redheaded giant he was yelling at.
The redhead nods, his eyes going past her to the racks of weapons that line the space, which is less than twenty cubits square.
Indeed, the redhead had warned him sharply that if he was planning to turn drug courier, he should stay well away from Sardonyx Sector.
Spermwhale Whalen, staggering forward and sitting on the grass next to the simpering redhead who now had his hands folded uselessly in his lap, his brain marinated.
The eager ring of faces shone sweatily in the moonlight and no one breathed as the grinning simpering redhead struggled valiantly with the words.
A second thug, high in the air like the first, passed along the news of the arrival of Spooner and the treacherous redhead.
He knew that Brand was not the only spectator who was watching Spooner and the redhead in the parked sedan.
Knowing this, The Shadow chose to abandon the redhead and Spooner in favor of a continued surveillance of Kemper.
A short, plump redhead, Tris wore a variety of braids coiled in a heavy silk net pinned at the back of her head.
Still appallingly unmilitary in the same blazing yellow sweater and the same shapeless fatigue pants, he was sitting at a table with our one remaining free companion, a plump redhead named Gina Lorth.