mop-headed cabbage palms. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There were about a dozen mop-headed, beady-eyed men, and some two dozen women -- two apiece -- and children. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The mop-headed driver, who could have passed for the fifth Beatle, zooms at high speed along the ring road, only shifting gears to slow the van down when we get to the busy streets of Haidian District. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter excerpt: "Going Undergound"] Reference
Onstage, Bernstein was the great enactor, showing the audience how to feel the music along with him; Mr. Levine is the great enabler, a mop-headed coachman of minimal body language whose feelings about the music are unreadable. From Wordnik.com. [James Levine: A Maestro At the Top of His Game] Reference
Papua differ widely from the lithe, active, brown-skinned, mop-headed natives of the eastern half of the southern coast; and Professors Haddon and Seligmann have decided that in eastern New Guinea many Proto-Polynesian, Melanesian and. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
At best, I am hoping for "mop-headed" in the meantime. From Wordnik.com. [Rancid Raves] Reference
There was that about the mop-headed young man which invited confidences. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
The mop-headed stoic returns to her old identity - most likely only to change her mind again later on. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
The last time Andrew van Oeyen played in Rochester, the mop-headed pianist looked barely old enough to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Rochester City Newspaper] Reference
Tonight's meeting of the Life and Death Brigade involves giving an epidural to the little mop-headed intern. From Wordnik.com. [BuddyTV] Reference
Laurus Nobilis hardy, evergreen shrubs are much sought after as terrace plants when grown as pyramids, or mop-headed standards. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
My chrysanthemums are almost, but not quite, the same as Mrs Miniver's which 'were the mop-headed kind, burgundy-coloured with curled petals.'. From Wordnik.com. [jane brocket] Reference
Where the gravely dressed partners of the brilliant creatures set up the hearthstone none can tell, unless it be the mop-headed Papuan, and he will not. From Wordnik.com. [In Nesting Time] Reference
Time magazine pronounced a benison on this "shy, mop-headed" young artist living "a hermit-like existence in a Boston slum" without ever having had an exhibition and scarcely having sold a picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
If so, then come right in the Parlor, where tonight and tomorrow you can catch that veteran of stand-up, the scene-stealing character actor of Flight of the Conchords, that mop-headed muppet of mirth: the incomparable Arj Barker. From Wordnik.com. [Seattlest] Reference
Sailing from Dobbo, a number of our mop-headed friends accompanied us to sea in their long canoes -- curious, savage-looking boats, the bow and stern rising up six or seven feet high, decorated with shells and waving plumes of cassowary's feathers. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
Adrian Grenier delivers some friendly first-person observations on fame's weirdness before recalling his meeting with the film's subject: 13-year-old Austin Visschedyk, a precocious mop-headed L.A. kid making an adult-sized income selling star pix. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
That was attended to by a snuffy and mop-headed, inconceivably dirty, and weirdly toothless Dutch ship-keeper, who could hardly speak three words of English, but who must have had some considerable knowledge of the language, since he managed invariably to interpret in the contrary sense everything that was said to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
The burly negroid Papuans of the Great River deltas of western Papua differ widely from the lithe, active, brown-skinned, mop-headed natives of the eastern half of the southern coast; and Professors Haddon and Seligmann have decided that in eastern New Guinea many Proto-Polynesian, Melanesian and Malayan immigrants have mingled their blood with that of the more primitive Papuans. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915] Reference
Oh Angela, you silly mop-headed girl!. From Wordnik.com. [Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (1988)] Reference
This wee, mop-headed baby boy is gone. From Wordnik.com. [This Is The Way The World Ends, Not With A Bang, But A Haircut - Her Bad Mother] Reference
Is he that mop-headed blighter? "he asked her. From Wordnik.com. [The Leopard Woman] Reference
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