rug-headed

English

Adjective

rug-headed (comparative more rug-headed, superlative most rug-headed)

1. (obsolete) Having shaggy hair, shock-headed.
   • 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]:

     […] 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.