Tow Head Edit Meaning

1.

tow headed is literally "flaxen haired". This meaning of tow comes from Middle Low German touw (which means "flax, hemp fiber"). This probably went back to the prehistoric Germanic base *tow-, *taw "make, prepare" (source also of English tool), in the sense "make yarn from wool; spin".

he's a real tow head

See Nic

2.

A person with very light (almost white) blond hair, "tow" being flax or hempfibers. Tow-headed, along with fair(-haired) and flaxen-haired, is a tradional way in the Englishlanguage to refer to blond hair or lightly-colored hair, having come from its old Germanic roots (which are quite rare).

"The tow head is an illusive creature, a minority."

See blonde, fair, pale, flax, dark