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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Of the two variants, “draglocks†is the only one for which I feel I can make an eggcorn argument – tightly braided dreadlocks can be long and heavy and seem to “drag.†The word’s pretty rare, however – just 24 ughits, and a number of those are repeats. “Dreglocks†is closer to the sound of the original, and Google returns 70+ ughits. Weirdly, many of those occur in citations that are very carefully – even elegantly – written. For some reason, certain careful writers are favoring this reshaping, but I couldn’t make a strong case for its eggcornicity. “Dreglocks†invokes “the dregs of society,†etc., but I didn’t see a lot of evidence that the writers were using the term in a deprecatory way. In any case, 3 citations for “draglocks†are followed by 4 for “dreglocks†below:
I think I remember them saying that the boyfriend had a headache after the dive…but maybe his draglocks were just too tight
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/1629829-post9.html
Well, to my surprise and horror, here comes this guy carrying a shopping bag with draglocks all the way down his back wearing a green, red and gold afro-centric cap.
http://www.cyberdatinghomepage.com/inte … advice.htm
Mr Hosea , Mr Issac Ong and Mr Joel Chew who decided to do draglocks in Bangkok … no comments man … the whole sudden draglocks craze … haha …
http://my-fairytale-dream.blogspot.com/ … chive.html
He was tall, quiet and had dreg-locks that I knew from their length had been the result of many years of cultivation.
http://www.allelon.org/ARTICLES/article.cfm?id=366
A young man opened the door. He was something out of the seventies, with dreg locks, a native wool poncho and sandals.
http://www.cmyfarm.com/doc/palenque.htm
Bicycles are everywhere and ridden by everyone, from distinguished people in business suits to reggae dudes in dreg locks, from the elderly to grade school students, there is nothing to distinguish one rider to another, everyone on his or her bike, pedaling swiftly on the cobblestones, over the tram tracks, easing his or her way in traffic, flying down the streets while deftly avoiding the oblivious tourists.
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/75b6b/71211/9/?o=2
A girl with green dreglocks, ok thats just gross, but I got nothing else.
http://nnothrthng.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_archive.html
Hey—looks like we just broke 6000 posts on Contribute alone. Wow. Two years ago I thought this forum was going to be moribund in a very short time….
Last edited by patschwieterman (2008-09-07 02:30:58)
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“Dredgelocks” is also out there, following the line of your other post.
I see a few examples of “breadlocks.” Perhaps the writers were thinking of chalah bread? And several examples of “deadlocked hair.” What could be the image behind deadlocked hair braids?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Thainks—I love “breadlocks.” And it shades interestingly into “braidlocks,” which seems to be used by people who are perfectly familiar with “dreadlocks.” I haven’t spent enough time to figure out whether people see a difference between braidlocks and dreadlocks.
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Dreglocks works at least as well for me as dreadlocks—both are fairly negative terms, but seem to me (as a bit of an outsider, though my son sported dreads for a while) to belong to a sub-culture where the appearance if not the reality of lawlessness/oppropbrium is rather highly valued. If you can brag that “I’m BAADâ€, I don’t see why you can’t be proud of representing the dregs, as much as of looking dreadful.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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completely non sequitur, but the standoff between Manny Ramirez and manager Joe Torre (after Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers and requested to “clean up his hair”) was known as the “Dreadlock Deadlock.”
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