cowlick
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cowlick (plural cowlicks)
- An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
- Synonym: calflick
Translations[edit]
unruly lock of hair
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References[edit]
- “cowlick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.