Shock-haired

Posted by Brian from Shawnee on November 24, 2004

In Reply to: Shock-haired posted by Ward on November 24, 2004

: : "On it[balcony] sat a shock-haired young man gazing upward with a bold, urgent look..." from The Master and Margarita

: : Has anyone heard this expression before? What does it mean? My guess would be shock-haired = white.

: My intrepretation would be a wild haired person with hair sticking out in all directions (similar to the pictures of people connected to a static machine with their hair standing straight out).

I picture a mop of thick hair. On an old episode of The Simpsons, Homer caught a big fish in a lake and either let it go or lost it. Anyway, the legend grew until Homer was described as having, among other heroic physical attributes, "...a shock of hair-- red, like the fires o' hell".