"Lindsay Lohan appeared in public," said a student, "and her hair was a mess! She hadn't combed it in weeks! What do you call that in English?"
Easy--unkempt. But it's not just hair--anything that is a mess, that is uncared for, can be called unkempt.
This word's history? Like so many other words, it the past participle of an Old English verb meaning--guess what--to comb!
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