peot

• payess, payis, payiss, payos, payot, payoth, peos, peyes, peyiss

Borrowed from Hebrew פֵּאוֹת (pe'ót) or Yiddish פּאות (peyes).

peot pl (plural only)

1. Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

   Synonym: sidecurl

   Hypernym: sidelocks

   • 1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18:

     With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.

   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights:

     'Manny? Sweet? Manny doesn't do sweet.'
     'Every man does sweet, Max. Even weird ones with payess.'

   • 2015 August 29, Mark Leibovich, The New York Times:

     He showed me the items in his den, or “trophy room” — the cardboard cutout of Sinatra wearing Jewish payos, the portrait of King made entirely of jelly beans, his Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.