headroach
nounEtymology From head + roach.
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Synonym of roach (“kind of headdress worn by some indigenous peoples of North American”).
- Aiming his one-eyed magic / he frames headroaches and cockroaches.1975, Lew Blockcoski, edited by Kenneth Rosen, Voices of the Rainbow, paperback edition, New York: The Viking Press, published 1980, →ISBN, Reservation Special, page 168: