Meanings
adjectiverug-headed (comparative more rug-headed, superlative most rug-headed)
comparative more rug-headed · superlative most rug-headed
- datedHaving shaggy hair, shock-headed.
[…] 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.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene 1]
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