different between sideburn vs sidelock

English

Etymology 1

An anagram of burnside, named after General Ambrose Burnside.

Noun

sideburn (plural sideburns)

1. singular of sideburns

   His left sideburn was longer than the other one.

Translations

Etymology 2

side +? burn

Noun

sideburn (uncountable)

1. (Britain, smoking) The unwanted rapid burning down one side of a cigarette that has been ineptly rolled.

References

• “sideburn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Burdines, Burnside, Rubenids, burnside

English

Alternative forms

• side-lock

Etymology

From side +? lock.

Noun

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 558:

     observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.

   • 2014 December, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic^[1]:

     Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.

   Hyponyms: payess, payot

2. (firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

Translations

See also

• sideburn
• sidecurl

Anagrams

• lockside