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Skinhead :
Slang 1. A person with a shaven head.
Even though is states "shaven head", but isn't that a hairstyle in some way? I know bunches and dreadlocks are.
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"shaven head"...a hairstyle in some way?
It's a hairstyle only in the negative sense, but a hair weave uses someone else's hair so who's to know which? And besides which, it's more a technique to make it look like you've got more hair than you really do and can be incorporated into any number of hair styles.
Gaffe is only one word but still has only one definition (at least according to M-W on line) so it's parbly the answer. Cleave and cleave notwithstanding.
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I agree about gaffe, but like I said: keep me away from the quiz-master.
(hell, I argued via e-mail with Richard Lederer about this! :)
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argued via e-mail with Richard Lederer
For all the good it did us. It's like that old one about the word that changes pronunciation when you capitalize it. When I try to bring up the one about the word that changes spelling when you capitalize it everybody ignores me.
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[begging to hear it -e] Purty please with sugar on top, faldage?
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faldage baits:
the one about the word that changes spelling when you capitalize it
please, share it ~ i'm curious!
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i'm not sure about "hair weave" ~ it might also mean what's been described above (having someone else's hair added to your own), but around here we call that "extensions", and a "weave" is when they wrap pieces of your hair in foil and bleach them, for a 'textured' look.
and speaking of hair, where on earth has rapunzel gone?? i miss her.
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faldage baits:
You know the one that changes pronunciation is Polish and polish. Of course they are no more the same word than are cleave and cleave or Russian and rushin'.
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Time to polish up our Polish?
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Say that in Reverse Polish Notation. Just a suggestion ... 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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PolishAnd if you've had 'one too many' it could also mean the cops...or would that be Poleesh? The Only WO'N!
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