BANGS / SIDEBURNS
前髪/もみあげ

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For Life
2002.10.30

It's good to have the pleasure of your company on this fine Wednesday! Today we look at words for hair found on two particular parts of our head and face. These words should be especially useful to people going to English-speaking barbers and beauticians!

Explanation

  • The hair that hangs forward over the forehead is called bangs

    The narrow bands of short hair that grow down either side of a person's face next to the ears are called sideburns.

    Be careful:
    Although we can talk about one sideburn - as in "the left sideburn" - bangs is almost always plural.
  • bangs は、額にかかった髪、つまり、前髪のことです。

    sideburns は、耳に沿って顔の両サイドに生やす髪の毛、つまり、もみあげのことです。

    注意:
    sideburn は、例えば「左のもみあげ」などと言う場合、単数で使えますが、bangs は、たいてい複数形で使われます。

examples

  1. Jenny has a ponytail and long bangs.
  2. (a customer talking to a beautician)
    Cut my bangs so they're not in my eyes, please.
  3. Your bangs are crooked! Who cut your hair?
  4. He grew his sideburns so long that he looked old-fashioned.
  5. (a barber talking to a customer)
    Your right sideburn is a little longer than the left one. Shall I shave them both to about the middle of your ear?

Keep smiling!