wethead look
- noun
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look mojado
- He left the pool with a messy wethead look that was both playful and relaxed.
Examples
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The stylist recommended some gel to achieve that natural wethead look.
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She styled her hair with a wethead look for the beach party.
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After the rain, his wethead look made everyone laugh at the office.
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She sported a deliberate wethead look at the music festival.
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I love the wethead look that models are sporting this season.
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At the summer concert, many attendees embraced the wethead look as a trendy style.
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The celebrity walked the red carpet, flaunting her wethead look that turned heads.
How Wet
Surface Forms
Morphology
wethead + look
The element 'look' clearly means appearance, and the intended sense can be derived from decomposing 'wethead' into 'wet' + 'head' (a head that looks wet), so a learner who knows those words can infer a wet-style hairstyle. However, 'wethead' is nonstandard/fused and carries a stylistic nuance ('styled wet look') that is not fully predictable from the parts, so the transparency is partial.
Etymology
The phrase wethead look comes from the simple image of hair on the head that looks wet, like someone who just came out of the water. Stylists use gel to make hair shiny and clumped, so wethead look now means 'a hairstyle that appears wet and messy'.