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Definition of barnet in English: barnetnoun ˈbɑːnɪt British informal A person's hair. 〈英，非正式〉（人的）头发 Example sentencesExamples - A couple of us in the Labour benches are thinking of putting down a motion condemning ministers with bad barnets.
- Or was I the only one dying to see what Den's mistress Kate did with her barnet after Chrissie, the woman scorned, hacked off her hair.
- And it was here that both Suzanne and I walked past each other, not recognising each other with our new barnets (perhaps my parents were right about hair changes being akin to plastic surgery).
- He laughs off the distinctive barnet, ‘I used to have dreadlocks, but I shaved them off.’
- The hair was forced into a frazzled haystack, with a little thatch combed over until your barnet billowed in frozen masses around your face.
- Hart belts out the Sinatra standards, but while his vocal impersonation is impressive, his barnet is so distressing it often looks like there's a second microphone on screen.
- Yet before he took to designing barnets he wanted to design buildings.
- Batwings, schoolgirl ties, frizzy hair, layered lipgloss, bleached barnets and ruffled skirts are just a few of the 80s disco elements which cropped up on this season's catwalks.
- Your barnet was pomaded and with the flick of a comb, your parting stayed in place - even if it did give your scalp a covering which would have stopped bullets in the trenches.
- He had special scissors that ‘thin’ the barnet by cutting some hairs but not others.
- Free Kick and free love specialist, David Beckham has come out with a new hair cut to add to his long list of changing barnets.
- An embarrassed Keith, 35, had to take a day off work yesterday to get the blue barnet shaved off at his local barbers near his home in Wigan and had to wear a hat to avoid any further blushes.
- Scientists are predicting the demise of the ginger barnet, for so long a characteristic of Scots from Rob Roy to Robin Cook, because of racial mixing.
- It was an American era of big moustaches, buffed-up barnets, industrial-strength sideburns and intimidating, tightly permed chest hair.
- I do wear nice clothes (I hope) and get through gallons of the Body Shop glossing shampoo to make the barnet better.
- They had sought him out to discover whether having a long barnet and beard makes a stand-up more or less comic.
- Second, you are just a confused pregnant lady who thinks a change will make her feel better - it won't, it will lead to tears and a disastrous barnet.
- Then in 2000, his barnet made an astonishing comeback, displaying a glossy dark sheen probably not seen since his days in university.
- Lead singer Adam Duritz's Medusa-like dreadlocks give him one of the most recognisable barnets in the music business.
- This year's theme of Comic Relief is The Big Hair Do with people encouraged to give their barnet a wacky makeover.
Synonyms head of hair, shock of hair, mop of hair, mane
OriginMid 19th century: from rhyming slang barnet fair, the name of a famous horse fair held at Barnet, Herts. |