(n.) The lock of hair that grows from the forepart of the head.
(n.) A cotter or split pin, as in a slot in a bolt, to prevent retraction; a linchpin; a pin fastening the cap-square of a gun.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(2) He rubs his nose, strokes his chin, considering his answers; if he had a forelock, I suspect he'd tug it.
(3) Waardenburg syndrome type 1 (WS1) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by deafness, dystopia canthorum, heterochromia iridis, white forelock, and premature greying.
(4) A family had the following manifestations of Waardenburg's syndrome (WS): prominent nasal root, white forelock, premature graying of the hair, freckled pigmentation of pale skin, hypoplastic heterochromia irides, heterochromia of the ocular fundi, congenital sensorineural hearing loss, and autosomal dominant heredity.
(5) We examined a middle-aged man with a prominent yellow forelock who complained of loss of vision in both eyes.
(6) Piebaldism is a disorder in which the major clinical features are patchy hypopigmentation of the skin and a white forelock.
(7) By contrast, poor old downtrodden, forelock-tugging Paddy has only reached the last eight of the World Cup once in three appearances at the finals ... and even then only by the skin of his oppressed-for-900-years teeth.
(8) Waardenburg's Syndrome (WS), a rare disorder inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with variable penetrance, is characterized by white forelock, eye-ear symptoms and signs, and dysmorphic features.
(9) A yellow forelock when associated with isolated painless visual loss suggests tobacco amblyopia.
(10) White forelock and hypomelanotic macules of piebaldism have been revealed to have almost regularly distributed, dopa-positive melanocytes, though with lower density than normal, on separated epidermis despite previous reports describing few or no melanocytes in piebald spots.
(11) A four and a half year old boy had displacement of the canthi, a white forelock, perceptive deafness, and a congenital heart defect.
(12) This was a week to choose British values | Marina Hyde Read more It’s the perfect strategy; there is nothing that Trump hates more than not being taken seriously, and there is nothing more British than not only resolutely refusing to tug our forelocks before any bully who insults us, but resorting to satire, wit and sarcasm as a mark of our lack of respect.
(13) There’s still a lot of this around here,” he said, tugging on an imaginary forelock when I asked him about HS2 (though he declined to give his name).
(14) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(15) The heterozygous mouse phenotype is very similar to human piebald trait, which is characterized by a congenital white hair forelock and ventral and extremity depigmentation.
(16) As far as the social agenda is concerned, here too we are being rapidly taken back to a forelock tugging age of gratitude for the little crumbs of work and wealth which fall from the rich man's table.
(17) A case of human piebaldism with white forelock is presented, with emphasis on the unusual aspect of expansion and diminution of the hypomelanotic areas.
(18) He’s been suggesting economic sabotage, he’s been tugging the forelock of a bunch of union thugs from the CFMEU – the most discredited union in Australia – and now he’s saying he wants to talk.
(19) Jar Jar Binks is famous for the tang of racism in his conception – his accent is plainly Jamaican, or Jafaican, if you prefer – and there’s a forelock-tugging slave-subtext that is crass because it’s unaddressed.
(20) The white forelock is a feature in 30% of cases and should suggest the diagnosis.
Quiff
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(2) Like Paul Hollywood's salt and pepper quiff, there's no visible means of support.
(3) Nostalgia has had its niche in pop ever since 70s stars such as Showaddywaddy and the late Les Gray of Mud cheerfully recycled the rhythms and quiffs of the 50s.
(4) By contrast, most bad guys in big summer blockbusters find themselves contending with a tornado of special effects, leaving actors even as brilliant as Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was in Star Trek Into Darkness, with little to do but race around with their quiff blowing in the wind.
(5) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(6) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
(7) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
(8) With his yellow ties and generous quiff, he stands ever ready to slam the unions and moan about Europe.
(9) He’s tall with square shoulders, his hair shaved at the sides with a floppy quiff on top.
(10) In the morning he'd had a Roger McGuinn bowl cut, but at the Haçienda his hair was up, an Elvis quiff.
(11) Ever mindful of his image, he was photographed with a bloodstained bandage swathing his rakish quiff.
(12) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
(13) Morrissey's style also caught his eye, as Howarth also wore his hair in a quiff, inspired by David Tennant's Doctor Who, and liked flowery shirts.
(14) He sometimes receives visitors with his jacket off, and, at 54, still wears his hair in a boyish quiff.
(15) To the south-west we can see the cliffs of Moher sporting a quiff of black cloud; to the west is Inis Oírr, the island where we spent the previous night.
(16) I remember going to gay bars in London that Bowie was known to frequent and it gave many of us courage not to hide, to have confidence in ourselves.’ In 1975 Bowie veered off into new territory, exploring his love of Philly soul with the Young Americans album , and introducing a look that has echoed through both gay clubs and soul weekenders ever since: the extravagant quiff or dyed wedge cut, teamed with a tailored shirt and baggy trousers.
(17) "The boy looked at Johnny," she sings, and then a rockabilly nightmare of switchblades and erotic pain unfolds in a glassy stilled imagery of sex and death: Johnny goes down on his knees and all he can see are "horses, horses, horses…" The iconography of this song is reproduced in a 1983 self-portrait in which Mapplethorpe poses in a leather jacket wielding a switchblade with his hair slicked into an ornate meta-rocker quiff.
(18) Composite: Getty But, then again, even the most strait-laced Conservative leaders were once pop-pickers: in his biography of Michael Howard, Michael Crick revealed that Howard sported an Elvis quiff in his youth.
(19) The Stratford Halo, at 43 storeys, is the biggest and boldest, wrapped with dubious purple pinstripes and topped with a jaunty quiff – and hosting a gaudy light show by night.
(20) Impish, irreverent and sporting combed-forward hair with a quiff at the front, the former Cambridge Footlights star, a Methodist minister's son from Kent, seemed to embody the new, impatient generation.