devil-in-the-head

Updated: June 13, 2025

'They cannot tell when or how to make an end, being women in whom all kind of curiosity is to be seen in far greater measure than in women of higher calling. I might name hues devised for the nonce, ver d'oye 'twixt green and yallow, peas-porridge tawny, popinjay blue, and the Devil-in-the-head.

William Charles Henry Wood - Elizabethan Sea Dogs