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ringlet
English
Etymology
From ring +? -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
Noun
ringlet (plural ringlets)
- A small ring.
- A lock, tress.
- Her hair was in ringlets.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
- (entomology) Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.
Translations
Verb
ringlet (third-person singular simple present ringlets, present participle ringleting, simple past and past participle ringleted)
- (transitive) To form into ringlets.
- 1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly (page 163)
- "It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.
- 1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly (page 163)
- (transitive) To surround or encircle like a ringlet.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Anagrams
- Giltner, Tingler, tingler, tringle
German
Pronunciation
Verb
ringlet
- second-person plural subjunctive I of ringeln
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forelock
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- +? lock.
Noun
forelock (plural forelocks)
- The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303, [1]
- His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
- 1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood, [2]
- Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVIII, [3]
- Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;
- 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter VIII, p. 135,
- This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303, [1]
- The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
- 1898, Ivan Turgenev, in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146, [4]
- […] the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.
- 1898, Ivan Turgenev, in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146, [4]
Synonyms
- (part of hairstyle): bangs (US), fringe (UK)
- (part of horse's mane): foretop
Derived terms
- forelocked
- forelocking
- take time by the forelock
- tug one's forelock
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English forelok, equivalent to fore- +? lock.
Noun
forelock (plural forelocks)
- A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.
Verb
forelock (third-person singular simple present forelocks, present participle forelocking, simple past and past participle forelocked)
- To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)
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