Meanings
adjectiveJudas-haired (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving red hair.
One of the crowd was a ruddy-faced, red-bearded, Judas-haired fellow, that looked every inch a Fenian, and might have stepped here from the Kilkenny wilds; […]
1888, Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain, page 475
Origin
From a popular belief that Judas Iscariot was red-haired.
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