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Helen Reavey, a renowned hairstylist and founder of Act+Acre, a vegan-friendly, natural hair care line, says that shorter, bolder hairstyles, like Tilda Swinton’s, are great for older women ...
A cockernonnie or cockernonie was an old Scottish women's hairstyle. It was a gathering up of the hair, after a fashion similar to the modern chignon, and sometimes called a "cock-up". Mr. Kirkton of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups" – of which chignons were the representative in the mid-19th century – said:
bovver boy A youth who deliberately causes or seeks out trouble (bother). [64] bovver boots Heavy boots, sometimes with a steel toecap, worn by bovver boys and used for kicking in fights. [64] brass 1. Money. [65] 2. Cheek, nerve. [65] 3. a prostitute. [65] Bristols The female breasts (Cockney rhyming slang, from Bristol bits = tits, or Bristol ...
When the model Twiggy became a fashion icon in the early '60s, short pixie haircuts became all the rage, modernizing women’s looks. The hairstyle was highly appealing, as it was easy to manage ...
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
The pageboy or page boy is a hairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medieval page boy. It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. There is often a fringe (bangs) in the front. [1] This style was popular in the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.
Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
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