hairmageddon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Informal

"Sassy tugged on a curl. It straightened and bounced back to its former loopy state. “This is a disaster. This is worse than a disaster. This is hairmageddon.”"
"This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988."
"Even though we mostly now see people onscreen, by June we may hit an unseemly Hairmageddon. As for the DIY coiffure, Google “lockdown haircuts” to see how they’re going."

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hērą Proto-West Germanic *hār Old English hǣr Middle English her English hair Middle English Hermagedon English Armageddon blend English hairmageddon Blend of hair + Armageddon.

hairmageddons (plural)

bad hair day

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