wild hairdo
- noun
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peinado salvaje
- With her wild hairdo, she embraced her unique style, standing out in the crowd.
Examples
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He arrived at the festival with a wild hairdo that perfectly matched his vibrant outfit.
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The trees looked to Walter like two female sentries with wild hairdos guarding the house.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her new wild hairdo made her the center of attention at the party.
Synonyms
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A way of cutting and arranging someone's hair
A hairstyle with hair that stands out from the head and is easy to see
A way of cutting or arranging hair to change your look
How Messy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a hairstyle that is messy, unkempt, or extravagantly styled' is directly and transparently derived from 'wild' (untamed/extravagant) modifying 'hairdo' (a hairstyle); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this sense. The adjective+noun compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so no special idiomatic knowledge is required.
Etymology
Wild hairdo may come from imagining hair that looks like a wild animal's mane, where wild suggests 'untamed' and hairdo is a hairstyle. So a wild hairdo looks messy or very showy, which is why the phrase means 'a messy or showy hairstyle'.