Elflock

Origin

From elf + lock.

Full definition of elflock

Noun

1. (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
• 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 17, The face which emerged was not reassuring. â€¦. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.