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Aug 17, 2020 · English - US. Aug 17, 2020. #4. owlman5 said: Blond is probably more common in the U.S., Aleng. It is fairly common to talk about fair skin, but less common to use fair hair in references to blond hair. Agreed. "Fair hair" just seems vague to me. I guess if someone used it I would assume that it meant more or less "blond."
Feb 5, 2009 · Hair can be singular (one hair), non-count singular (meaning an entire growth of hairs, such as on the head: hair) or plural (three hairs). Whenever the form is singular ("hair") the singular form of the verb is used; when it is plural ("hairs"), the plural verb form is used: "Natasha's hair is long." "There are hairs on your coat."
Aug 15, 2019 · Ruffing or ruffling someone's hair is a very patronising gesture done by an older person - not usually liked or appreciated by the younger participant in this process. wildan1 Moderando ma non troppo (French-English & CC Mod)
Aug 15, 2011 · The wind fluttered through his hair. The wind whispered through his hair. The wind flirted with his hair. You did ask for a fixed phrase, aNother. Besides, use logic. Wind is invisible. Choose a word that creates more unseen movement. edit: I just realized it was the hair on his legs! Okay, I'll leave what I already suggested for the hair on ...
Aug 10, 2009 · I would say that the hair on the pig's chin has being animated like a cartoon, in the pig's thinking, to actually refusing to open the door for the wolf in support of the pig. "Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!" "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in!"
Mar 11, 2013 · a lock of hair might measure several cm. in width, it's often cut to serve as a memento of the person a shock of hair is thicker in width; apart from the context you gave, the word is also used (somewhat literarily) to describe, for example, clumps of hair that fall forward into the face or cover the eyes, because the person is expending physical effort and the combed style comes out of place
Feb 26, 2016 · UK English. May 29, 2012. #2. "I had my hair cut" is possible, when the speaker is thinking of a particular occasion, e.g. I had my hair cut last week. Normally one would expect "I've had my hair cut" (as in "I've had my hair cut since we last met"). Another example: A.
Aug 9, 2011 · Singapore. English (Singapore/UK), basic Chinese. Aug 9, 2011. #7. For me, wearing the hair up means that the hair is bunned or bunched in some way (in contrast to plaits or pony tails), so it doesn't sound like the contrast that NHHL is looking for. (I encountered 'half up, half down' for the first time in discussions about Kate Middleton's ...
Jul 18, 2020 · Hebrew. Jul 18, 2020. #1. I read that the word barnet means hair in Cockney rhyming slang, and it's based on the term Barnet Fair where fair rhymes with hair and dropped, leaving the first word barnet, the way this kind of slang tends to do. This sounds to me too complicated for developing a slang word.
Feb 28, 2016 · Senior Member. Salerno, Italy. UK English. Feb 28, 2016. #11. Fairer hair, to mean lighter hair, is perfectly okay for me too. I personally have got (naturally) darker with age as many fair-haired people seem to, not fairer. In any case my brother (for example) is fairer than I am/has fairer hair than I have.
