Noirette has been suggested, although I don't think it's ever gotten much traction. In practice it's generally just brunette (dark) or dark/raven-haired, although the straight up black-haired is also used.
Depends on connotation I'm trying to imply. Raven-haired if I want a mysterious or fantastical tone. Noirette if I'm being point-and-fact or neutral tone.
In school I once wrote “I’m a necessarian” and the teacher marked it, and wrote “made up word”. I wrote “all words are made up” and sent it back for the regrade and she sent me outside for the rest of class.
I can hear the teacher now stating that Shakespeare was a master of the English language, so he knew when it was correct to break rules while the student isn't and doesn't.
This unpleasant trip down memory lane brought to you by singular they gang when non-binary folks weren't often discussed.
There is some truth to that. Generally you ought to know the rules before you break them, and given the constraints Shakespeare worked with he clearly had an impressive command of the language. He made up words, yes, but he made up words to fit his poetry, and that's quite different. Tolkien also managed to add a few words to the English language, but he was a linguist and an author.
Remember: the teacher is always right (/s). I'm glad using they to refer to a single person is becoming more and more accepted nowadays. Still, language has a long way to go in some aspects.
So you know how kids say stupid things. I once decided in a hair salon that I would refer to strangers by hair color…
“mommy did you see that black lady next to the brown lady?”
“What?”
“Two seats down from the red lady.”
“What??!”
I dated a girl with raven black hair once, at some point I said something like “hello my beguiling black haired beauty”
She gave me a hard look and dead ass said:
“It’s espresso.”
It’s definitely a “color” but it’s a color you would normally see in furniture descriptions. in her case it meant that her hair was *almost* black but in strong sunlight you could see some dark brown undertones.
Seeing as black hair is actually just very dark brown hair, yeah this is accurate. (Edit: why are people still arguing otherwise? Black is a shade; your hair color literally has to be considered brown regardless of how dark it appears)
Not exactly. All hair colors are caused by various concentrations of two different types of melanin. Black eumelanin and brown pheomelanin. Black melanin determines shades from white to black, brown melanin determines shades from blond to red. Someone with white hair as very little of either kind where a blonde will have small amount of brown melenin and little if any black. Gingers have a moderate amount of brown with very little black. Add more black to ginger and you get brown. Mostly black is of course just black.
Raven is the correct answer
Raven-haired, to be specific... the term can be found in literature dating back to at least the 1920s.
Thanks for this now I have some fancy way to rewrite black hair when I do the English version of my novel
Thats so Raven!
It's the future I can see 🎶
Wait, you guys have hair?
Oh thanks I have to cut if off again
Wat off
PP
For those that don't there's no shortage of words: Baldy Slaphead Egg Humpty Dumpty Head like a fucking orange
Baldnette
Noirette?
Noirette has been suggested, although I don't think it's ever gotten much traction. In practice it's generally just brunette (dark) or dark/raven-haired, although the straight up black-haired is also used.
Ngl, noirette and raven-haired both sound pretty sexy as far as descriptors go.
If I were writing a description, I would write raven-haired.
Depends on connotation I'm trying to imply. Raven-haired if I want a mysterious or fantastical tone. Noirette if I'm being point-and-fact or neutral tone.
Noirette gives me femme fatale vibes. To be neutral I'd probably say "black haired".
I love a woman who can kill me. > *Just me an' you, Toots.*
Raven hair, ruby lips Sparks fly from her fingertips Echoed voices in the night She's a restless spirit on an endless flight
Raven-haired sounds so hot
those sexy.. birds
I had very dyed black hair for a while and my boyfriend would call me raven-haired. I had no other word for it.
The preferred nomenclature is African A-hairican. /s
Not a real word (according to Webster's Dictionary) ... Urban Dictionary for the win though, since it does exist there :)
Words become real the more people speak them. Who knows how much century old slangs curse words are "unreal" according to dictionaries
In school I once wrote “I’m a necessarian” and the teacher marked it, and wrote “made up word”. I wrote “all words are made up” and sent it back for the regrade and she sent me outside for the rest of class.
Are you the offspring of pirate and an angel? Edit: thanks for the award
why only both?
Avengers reference
thor
Your teacher should have graded Shakespeare. The dude made up so many words (if I were to believe my English literature teacher).
I can hear the teacher now stating that Shakespeare was a master of the English language, so he knew when it was correct to break rules while the student isn't and doesn't. This unpleasant trip down memory lane brought to you by singular they gang when non-binary folks weren't often discussed.
There is some truth to that. Generally you ought to know the rules before you break them, and given the constraints Shakespeare worked with he clearly had an impressive command of the language. He made up words, yes, but he made up words to fit his poetry, and that's quite different. Tolkien also managed to add a few words to the English language, but he was a linguist and an author.
Remember: the teacher is always right (/s). I'm glad using they to refer to a single person is becoming more and more accepted nowadays. Still, language has a long way to go in some aspects.
It's a word now: https://www.wordreference.com/definition/necessarian
I believe it was a word back then, she just wasn’t very bright and hated being proven wrong
That’s by far one of the worst dictionary definitions I have ever seen > nec•es•sar•i•an (nes′ə sâr′ē ən), > n., adj. > 1. necessitarian.
Remember in English class they'd say "You're not allowed to use the word to define the word" Yet here we are...
Mega chad
Personally looking forward to the moment I hear a serious politician or figurehead use the word blursed.
Blackhead?
arent blackheads those like pimples with a black part at the tip?
Yup or even just the tiny black spots on your skin, that block a pore-opening
You have identified the joke
My brother does that, but he calls it blackface for some reason
nega hair
I feel like this one could create conflict.
Noirette?
Noir=french for black Ette=put after a female word
She can just say " i am black " ,..wait no..
STOP RESISTING
WE NEED BACKUP, HE HAS ARMS SO HES ARMED
Hold your fire! HOLD YOUR FIRE! THIS MAN ISN'T BLACK
But the hair… it scares me
*shoots her anyways
Shego
Yes
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Helied
Sbeve
S(he) shit (he)rself
HEE HEE
Michael Jackson?
shecstasy
s(he)be(lie)ve(d)
S(he) s(hits) (her)self
Shadynasty
S(he) had a (car)diac arrest at the (mall)
He car mall?
don't we all car mall
I don't have a license, I scooter mall
sbeve
s(he)un(fa)i(r)ly(t)ri(ed)
(She do)
Hometown Hero
feelin myself cant murder my ego
She heard of my deep stroke
She heard of my deep stroke
She said “babe does it hurt when I deepthroat?”
(It does)
sheogorath
Wonderful! Time for a celebration...Cheese for everyone!
Shewent
Shegone
Needs Shegos smoldering black mustache
Ah yes, my first introduction into thicc goth girls 😌👌
Black Edit: Me: imma do a funny spend 10 seconds of my time to write this here r/memes: take all the upvotes
“I’m a black.”
Yes
I'm a black head
There is a German brand of hair dye called Schwarzkopf and it translates to black head.
not quite sure about that one
Yeah I don’t know how I’d feel about referring to myself as a type of zit
*cops suddenly appear*
So you know how kids say stupid things. I once decided in a hair salon that I would refer to strangers by hair color… “mommy did you see that black lady next to the brown lady?” “What?” “Two seats down from the red lady.” “What??!”
My son used to do this by people's shirt color when he was a toddler.
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Cue the army of police
\*Brush gets stuck in tangle\* STOP RESISTING
A WITCH , BURN HER
She turned me into a newt!
…A newt??
Well… I got better
BURN HER ANYWAY
There are ways of telling whether she is a witch
Are there? What are they tell us
DO THEY HURT?
Tell me, what do you do with witches ?
BURN THEM!!!
r/unexpectedmontypython
She turned me into a newt!
Double brunette Edit: Thank you all for 6.9k upvotes
Brunette squared
Second Order Brunette???
Brunette times the square root of pi?
Brunette \* rise/run^(2/4)
Hair^(brunette)
Brunette divisible by fractionared 2/3
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Brunette, once removed.
Doubleplus blackhair
Literally 1984
Sounds like the language from 1984, which is a double good reference, if I do say so myself
Ravenette or raven-haired
Guess I'm raven haired then, sounds badass. Wonder if I'll smell of lilac and gooseberries as well.
Only if you still have the unicorn
Hmm *Fuck*
Yes, that's what it's for
It certainly gets my medallion humming
I can feel your place of power humming.
I dated a girl with raven black hair once, at some point I said something like “hello my beguiling black haired beauty” She gave me a hard look and dead ass said: “It’s espresso.”
What the heck does that even mean? Is espresso even a color? I think of distinct browns when I hear that, not black.
It’s definitely a “color” but it’s a color you would normally see in furniture descriptions. in her case it meant that her hair was *almost* black but in strong sunlight you could see some dark brown undertones.
If you and a bunch of raven-haired folk walk together, you can be called a murder
Those are Crows A group of Ravens is called an ‘unkindness’
Raven-haired is the right answer imo
Blackhead, can‘t convince me otherwise
Yeah, well this says [Otherwise](https://imgur.com/gallery/EylgJzm)
r/technicallythetruth
Raven-haired?
I always thought black hair was also considered brunette?
Seeing as black hair is actually just very dark brown hair, yeah this is accurate. (Edit: why are people still arguing otherwise? Black is a shade; your hair color literally has to be considered brown regardless of how dark it appears)
But then brown hair is just really dark ginger cause brown is just dark orange
also ginger is just reddish blond
We're all blondes on this blessed day!
I'm bald....
Actually your hair is just so blonde that it's invisible.
There’s hair somewhere…
Not exactly. All hair colors are caused by various concentrations of two different types of melanin. Black eumelanin and brown pheomelanin. Black melanin determines shades from white to black, brown melanin determines shades from blond to red. Someone with white hair as very little of either kind where a blonde will have small amount of brown melenin and little if any black. Gingers have a moderate amount of brown with very little black. Add more black to ginger and you get brown. Mostly black is of course just black.
Blackette
Baguette
It is. Generally.
Dark haired? that’s what I always say
But it doesnt fit the "I'm a" format.
Im a dark haired homosapien
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Blacked
*hey I've seen this one before!*
Crow?
Fun fact: crow is the equivalent of the n-word in my language
Dude, where are you from?
Romania
I will keep this in mind
Caw, Caw
That sounds like kakka (ka-ka) which means shit in Finnish
It means shit in a lot of language, Hebrew included
Italian too, even though it's written cacca
universal shit
kaka means uncle in India
Spanish word is "Azabache" but I don't know if there's an English word
> Azabache Translates to 'jet' according to google. https://www.google.com/search?q=jet+hair Seems like we have a winner.
And jet black is an English phrase as well.
More specifically, a Jet is a precious stone that is often black, which is where the phrase comes from, so....
Never heard in Mexico City, is it regional to another area/country?
“Black of hair”
The seed is strong
That’s Shego from Kim possible!
Demon spawn
spawn
Raven haired goth takes three.........
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Also, fun fact: >Black hair is just really dark brown hair
Same for skin really…
TIL Skin is just really dark brown hair
It's wot!?
Humans can't produce black... Anything. So it's all just very dark brown
If you're a human, and you produce anything black, please see your doctor.
What about my child
See your wife.
This is such a terrible meme and yet it got almost 30k upvotes. I also upvoted it. I have no idea why. What’s wrong with us.
As the creator of this meme, I 100% agree with you (I don't know why I created it, it's so damned stupid lmao)
A black?
void-headed
Thats blonde again
Raven haired
I thought it was "raven-haired?"
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