bedhead

noun

bed·​head ˈbed-ˌhed 

1

: the head of a bed

especially, British : headboard

They … painted in patterns and delicate colours nearly every surface, tables, bedheads, doors, cupboards.

—P. J. Kavanagh

2

or bed head informal : hair that is mussed or tangled when a person gets out of bed

He is a small man with a salt-and-pepper beard, very bright brown eyes and a perpetual case of bed head, little tufts flying every which way.

—Alex Witchel

Examples of bedhead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Find it on Amazon Reduce Your Frizz with This Satin Pillowcases Wake up with fewer wrinkles and no bedhead by sleeping on satin pillowcases. —Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024

Look to Alexa Chung's bedhead in the '00s for inspiration. —Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2023

Nothing ruins your morning quite like a glimpse of your bedhead in the mirror. —Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023

Solstice also has a minimal atmospheric lifetime (under two weeks compared to the 1.6 years with hydrofluorocarbons and and 80-100 years with traditional chlorofluorocarbons), so your strategic bedhead won’t haunt your descendants. —Erica Smith, ELLE, 5 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1