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Examples
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A lot of bald-head men, the wife want it long on the side to cover the ears.
A barber puts his scissors aside, but not his love of life. John Kelly 2011
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When I say bald-head ph I mean they're white headed, their bodies are colored and their tails and wings are all white.
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The bald-head beer-halls will be drunk dry tonight.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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The bald-head beer-halls will be drunk dry tonight.
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Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, offends my sight.
Les Miserables 2008
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Snooze gently in thy arm-chair, thou easy bald-head! play your whist, or read your novel, or talk scandal over your work, ye worthy dowagers and fogies!
The Newcomes 2006
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But youse gettin 'old in lots of ways -- look at dat bald-head -- just as clean as my hand.
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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"Aw, don't sing my song to that little red, pug-nosed bald-head!"
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It is like the days when they cried: "Go up, thou bald-head," and the old man now and then turns and delivers ineffectual curses.
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The Zuccone has been called by this familiar nickname from time immemorial: bald-head or pumpkin -- such is the meaning of the word, and nobody has hitherto given a reasoned argument to identify this singular figure with any particular prophet.
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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