is "dirty blonde" depreciative?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Neutral

On the basis of literature, I assumed "insult," just because it
appeared that it should br=e such.. But, when I've heard that used in
the wild, it has always been a merely a description, whether of the
hair of the person speaking or that of the person spoken of.

Maybe it's an insult in Britspeak.

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