different between forelock vs forelook

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- +? lock.

Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

1. The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303, [1]

     His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:

   • 1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood, [2]

     Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVIII, [3]

     Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

   • 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, Chapter VIII, p. 135,

     This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]

2. The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
   • 1898, Ivan Turgenev, in A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, New York: Macmillan: 1898, p. 146, [4]

     […] the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.

Synonyms

• (part of hairstyle): bangs (US), fringe (UK)
• (part of horse's mane): foretop

Derived terms

• forelocked
• forelocking
• take time by the forelock
• tug one's forelock

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English forelok, equivalent to fore- +? lock.

Noun

forelock (plural forelocks)

1. A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.

Verb

forelock (third-person singular simple present forelocks, present participle forelocking, simple past and past participle forelocked)

1. To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)

English

Etymology

From Middle English vorloken, forluken, equivalent to fore- +? look.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???l?k/ (verb)
• IPA^(key): /?f??l?k/ (noun)

Verb

forelook (third-person singular simple present forelooks, present participle forelooking, simple past and past participle forelooked)

1. To look beforehand, to preview.
2. To look forward.

Noun

forelook (plural forelooks)

1. A preview.
   • 1859 September, Edward Everett Hale, "My Double; and How He Undid Me," Atlantic Monthly:

     [T]o do one's best on Sunday to interweave that thought with the active life of an active town, and to inspirit both and make both infinite by glimpses of the Eternal Glory, seemed such an exquisite forelook into one's life! . . . If this vision could only have lasted.

2. Someone or something previewed.

See also

• afterlook
• hindlook